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- Title
Analyzing the talking book Imagine a world: A multimodal approach to English language learning in a multilingual context.
- Authors
Lotherington, Heather; Tan, Sabine; O'Halloran, Kay L.; Wignell, Peter; Schmitt, Andrew
- Abstract
In recent years there has been increased academic and professional interest and awareness in approaches to English language teaching (ELT) that take a plurilingual approach. This is often combined with a multimodal stance. The outcome of this combination is an approach to English language teaching that integrates multiple languages and multiple semiotic resources. This paper examines how a plurilingual approach to ELT can be viewed through a multimodal lens by analyzing the construction of a plurilingual talking book created as a student project in an elementary public school. The analysis uses multimodal analysis software to map the interaction of languages and images, in order to determine how these function as meaning-making resources in a multimodal, multiple-language text created by linguistically diverse students with high ELT needs. The findings indicate how combinations of different semiotic resources work together to create meaning, delineates the role of English in meaning-making, and illustrates the children's multilingual interactions in the creation of their collaboratively composed multimodal talking book.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language acquisition; MULTILINGUAL communication; MULTILINGUALISM; LANGUAGE &; languages; MULTICULTURAL education
- Publication
Text & Talk, 2019, Vol 39, Issue 6, p747
- ISSN
1860-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/text-2019-0239