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What is the primary characteristic of multimodality?
What is the primary characteristic of multimodality?
What type of meaning is conveyed through spoken language via live or recorded speech?
What type of meaning is conveyed through spoken language via live or recorded speech?
What is an example of a visual resource used to convey meaning?
What is an example of a visual resource used to convey meaning?
What is the primary mode of conveying meaning through written language?
What is the primary mode of conveying meaning through written language?
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What is an example of a linguistic mode of communication?
What is an example of a linguistic mode of communication?
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What is a characteristic of composing oral meaning?
What is a characteristic of composing oral meaning?
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What is conveyed through body movement, facial expression, and gaze?
What is conveyed through body movement, facial expression, and gaze?
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What type of multimodal text includes graphic novels, comics, and posters?
What type of multimodal text includes graphic novels, comics, and posters?
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What is an example of a digital multimodal text?
What is an example of a digital multimodal text?
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What is conveyed through design of spaces, using choices of spatial resources?
What is conveyed through design of spaces, using choices of spatial resources?
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What is an example of a live multimodal text?
What is an example of a live multimodal text?
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What combines rhythm, speed, stillness, and angles in conveying meaning?
What combines rhythm, speed, stillness, and angles in conveying meaning?
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What is the purpose of teaching multimodal literacy to students?
What is the purpose of teaching multimodal literacy to students?
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What is an example of a complex digital multimodal text?
What is an example of a complex digital multimodal text?
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What is meant by 'orchestrated' in the context of multimodal texts?
What is meant by 'orchestrated' in the context of multimodal texts?
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What is an example of a simple multimodal text?
What is an example of a simple multimodal text?
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What is the significance of teaching students how authors use different modes to convey meaning?
What is the significance of teaching students how authors use different modes to convey meaning?
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Study Notes
• Multimodal texts can be categorized into simple and complex types, with examples of simple multimodal texts including comics, picture books, newspapers, and social media, and complex digital multimodal texts including live action films, animations, and web pages.
• Teaching multimodal literacy is essential as it enables students to understand how authors combine different modes to convey meaning and how meaning is "orchestrated" through the selection and use of different modes in various combinations.
• Multimodality involves the complex interweaving of word, image, gesture, movement, and sound, including speech, to convey meaning.
• A multimodal text is defined as one that combines two or more communication modes to convey or make meaning, with communication modes including linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial.
• Linguistic mode involves the vocabulary, structure, and grammar of oral and written language, conveying written meaning through handwriting, printed page, and screen.
• Spoken mode conveys meaning through spoken language via live or recorded speech, with choices around mood, emotion, emphasis, fluency, speed, volume, tempo, pitch, rhythm, pronunciation, intonation, and dialect.
• Visual mode conveys meaning through choices of visual resources, including still and moving images, with visual resources such as framing, vectors, symbols, perspective, gaze, point of view, color, texture, line, shape, casting, saliency, distance, angles, form, contrast, lighting, and camera movement.
• Audio mode conveys meaning through sound, including choices of music, ambient sounds, noises, alerts, silence, natural/unnatural sounds, and use of volume, beat, tempo, pitch, and rhythm.
• Gestural mode conveys meaning through choices of body movement, facial expression, eye movements and gaze, demeanor, gait, dance, acting, and action sequences.
• Spatial mode conveys meaning through design of spaces, using choices of spatial resources including scale, proximity, boundaries, direction, layout, and organization of objects in the space.
• Spatial meaning extends from design of the page in a book to the design of a room, architecture, streetscapes, and landscapes.
• Types of multimodal texts include paper-based multimodal texts such as picture books, graphic novels, and posters, live multimodal texts such as dance and performance, and digital multimodal texts such as film, animation, and web pages.
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Test your understanding of multimodal communication modes, including audio, gestural, and spatial meaning. Explore the various ways in which meaning is conveyed through sound, body movement, and spatial arrangements.
