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Teaching English in new times

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on a theory-practice orientation to classroom work in two Year Two (14-year-old students) language arts classrooms in an Integrated Programme school. The authors argue that adolescents' interaction with texts has expanded and their text experience has encompassed multiple modes of representation and communication. These call for a shared language to describe these multimodal texts. The authors describe their framework for developing a shared language to read multimodal texts and illustrate how this framework serves as "reading tools" for both teachers and students in their literacy practices in the school.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationExploring New frontiers: Challenging Students in the Language and Literature Classroom
EditorsPeter Teo, May Yin Tay, Caroline Ho
Place of PublicationSingapore
PublisherPearson Education South Asia
Pages15-29
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9789810681944
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • English language
  • language arts (secondary)
  • multimodal literacy
  • study and teaching (secondary)
  • visual literacy

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