The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …

For young children, literacy is multimodal. Visual images, oral language, gestures, numbers,
and other signs are intermingled with printed words during language arts activities in …

Whether L2ers know this constraint was used to examine whether UG operates in SLA (see
Belikova and White (2009) for a recent overview). The logic behind it is as follows: Some …

The Neoproterozoic tectonomagmatic evolution of West Avalonia comprises four major
events. Tectonism started with the formation of a Tonian passive margin on a Baltica-derived …

This essay addresses the nature of so–called 'digital media'in a literacy context from the
perspectives of semiotics, theories of the 'medium', and computation. It argues that most …

Big Data for Qualitative Research covers everything small data researchers need to know
about big data, from the potentials of big data analytics to its methodological and ethical …

Despite the proliferation of augmented reality (AR) apps, Australian primary teachers have
yet to use them widely for the teaching of multimodal literacies. Conceptualising teachers' …

The changing nature of communication has accentuated the need to develop multimodal
literacy in students. Although the conventional way of asking a series of questions to elicit …

In an age of mobile technologies, digital animation creation can be an important tool for
teaching adolescents how to communicate emotions multimodally. This article draws on …

Research into the contribution of multimodality to language learning is gaining momentum.
While most studies pave the way for new understandings of language teaching and …