Multimodal teaching and learning : the rhetorics of the science classroom / Gunther Kress ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kress, Gunther R.

Series:

Advances in applied linguistics.

Advances in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in education.

Learning strategies.

Modality (Linguistics).

Science--Study and teaching.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice. This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about how meaning and knowledge are shaped by our modes of communication. The book appeals to a wide range of scholars and practitioners far beyond the science classroom.' Professor Ron Scollon, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.This book takes a radically different look at communication, a

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Rhetorics of the science classroom: a multimodal approach; 2 Multimodality; 3 Analysing action in the science classroom; 4 Shapes of knowledge; 5 Rethinking learning in the multimodal environment: learning to be scientific; 6 Written genres and the transformation of multimodal communication: students' signs as evidence of learning; 7 Materiality as an expression of learning; 8 Conclusion; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4411-0996-X

1-281-29813-1

9786611298135

1-84714-108-0

OCLC:

290600563