Transforming Literacies and Language : Multimodality and Literacy in the New Media Age

Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book is a reconceptualization of the role of language and pedagogy in what Kress (2003) has termed the new media age. At the heart of the volume is the notion of ‘transformation’ – a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology and, as a result, literacy acquisition itself. The chapters look at language as positioned in a hugely multimodal world. Communication extends beyond the traditional realms of discourse, from the collaborative efforts of wikis to the hybrid speech and text of online messaging. These new areas of meaning-making are excellent and extremely important avenues to explore for academics interested in applied linguistics, language and literature, language acquisition and multimodality. Annotation This text looks at radical reconceptualisations of language and literacy pedagogy in the new media age. It is organised into 5 sections: 'Implementation and Task Design', 'Multimodality and Digital Narratives', 'Computer-supported Collaborative Learning', 'Corpora and Data Driven Language Learning' and 'Web 2.0 and Mobile Technologies' Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book looks at radical reconceptualizations of language and literacy pedagogy in the media age. It is based on the notion of 'transformation' - a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology, and literacy acquisition.