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Visual and Media Literacy Put Into Practice: Creating Multimodal Texts in ELT

Visual and Media Literacy Put Into Practice: Creating Multimodal Texts in ELT

Grit Alter
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522557968|ISBN10: 1522557962|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522588085|EISBN13: 9781522557975
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch009
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Alter, Grit. "Visual and Media Literacy Put Into Practice: Creating Multimodal Texts in ELT." Teaching Literature and Language Through Multimodal Texts, edited by Elena Domínguez Romero, et al., IGI Global, 2019, pp. 153-171. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch009

APA

Alter, G. (2019). Visual and Media Literacy Put Into Practice: Creating Multimodal Texts in ELT. In E. Domínguez Romero, J. Bobkina, & S. Stefanova (Eds.), Teaching Literature and Language Through Multimodal Texts (pp. 153-171). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch009

Chicago

Alter, Grit. "Visual and Media Literacy Put Into Practice: Creating Multimodal Texts in ELT." In Teaching Literature and Language Through Multimodal Texts, edited by Elena Domínguez Romero, Jelena Bobkina, and Svetlana Stefanova, 153-171. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch009

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Abstract

In this chapter, the author explores the concept and teaching potential of visual and media literacy and discusses the creation of digital visual narratives as a means to develop critical media literacy. Based on an example from her university class, the author argues that a hands-on approach of creating digital visual reader-responses to literary texts is a highly beneficial tool to not only develop but also experience visual and media literacy. In the process of creating digital visual narrations using the Web 2.0 application Pixton, students additionally reflect the representation of the protagonists' ethnic and cultural identity within the text and in their surrounding environment, thus fostering intercultural awareness.. This creative reader-response approach allows combining literary literacy with the development of visual and media literacy in digital learning settings.

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