TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of multimodal texts in Secondary Education
T2 - A case study
AU - Rodosthenous-Balafa, Marina
AU - Stylianou-Georgiou, Agni
AU - Pitri, Elisavet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa, Agni Stylianou-Geor-giou, and Elisavet Pitri.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper describes the theoretical framework and the methodology followed by three re-searchers from different disciplines (Literature, Art Education and Educational Psychology) in order to present the challenges 12-15-year-old students faced in the production of a mul-timodal text in a school context. It examines the way students address specific dimensions of meaning (representational, social and organizational) within and across linguistic and visual-spatial modes, when producing a multimodal text. Specifically, it demonstrates stu-dents’ challenges in addressing the different dimensions of meaning and achieving syner-gy among different semiotic systems in creating multimodal artefacts. Qualitative methods were utilized to analyze how groups addressed linguistically and visually the representation-al, social and organizational dimensions of meaning for the production of their multimodal texts and how they reflected on the production of their multimodal meaning making. The results of this study shed light on the difficulties the students have faced in the production of multimodal meaning making. Moreover, the study stresses the need to support students through systematic approaches on how to address the different dimensions of meaning in multimodal text production. Finally, several suggestions are provided regarding further research on studying in depth the process of producing multimodal texts in school context.
AB - This paper describes the theoretical framework and the methodology followed by three re-searchers from different disciplines (Literature, Art Education and Educational Psychology) in order to present the challenges 12-15-year-old students faced in the production of a mul-timodal text in a school context. It examines the way students address specific dimensions of meaning (representational, social and organizational) within and across linguistic and visual-spatial modes, when producing a multimodal text. Specifically, it demonstrates stu-dents’ challenges in addressing the different dimensions of meaning and achieving syner-gy among different semiotic systems in creating multimodal artefacts. Qualitative methods were utilized to analyze how groups addressed linguistically and visually the representation-al, social and organizational dimensions of meaning for the production of their multimodal texts and how they reflected on the production of their multimodal meaning making. The results of this study shed light on the difficulties the students have faced in the production of multimodal meaning making. Moreover, the study stresses the need to support students through systematic approaches on how to address the different dimensions of meaning in multimodal text production. Finally, several suggestions are provided regarding further research on studying in depth the process of producing multimodal texts in school context.
KW - framework
KW - multimodal meaning making
KW - multimodal texts
KW - secondary school
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148512478&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18680/hss.2019.0013
DO - 10.18680/hss.2019.0013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148512478
SN - 2459-2943
VL - 5
SP - 216
EP - 234
JO - Punctum International Journal of Semiotics
JF - Punctum International Journal of Semiotics
IS - 1
ER -