Multimodality in the EFL classroom

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  • Fábio Bezerra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Keywords:

multimodality, classroom, grammar of visual design, multimodal communicative competence

Abstract

Due to the increased multimodal nature of communication in today’s globalized and culturally diverse world (Christie, 2005), it is paramount to devote attention in the classroom to how semiotic resources (van Leeuwen, 2005) other than verbal language have been used to create identities and to position people socially, especially for the fact that the school plays – or should play – a vital role in the development of people’s individual, social, cultural and political development. In this paper, I contextualize the work with images and present metalanguage from the Grammar of Visual Design (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006) in order to enable teachers to develop activities to foster their students’ ‘multimodal communicative competence’ (Heberle, 2010). Besides, I carry out analysis of a movie poster so as to put the theory presented into practice.

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Author Biography

Fábio Bezerra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

I'm currently in the last year of my doctorate in English and Applied Linguistics at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Sydney (cotutelle).

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Published

2012-03-30

How to Cite

Bezerra, F. (2012). Multimodality in the EFL classroom. BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2(2). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/belt/article/view/9671

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