1. Theories and Practices of Multimodal Education: In today’s teaching in the classroom, teacher needs to use multimodal ways to inform students about learning theories and practice. The multimodal theories include Picture books, interaction with peers, gesture, drama, drawing, and ways of incorporating, integrating and extending linguistic signs. The digital media also can be a way to help students in literacy learning. Students can decode and comprehend alphabetic print in conjunction with other socially and culturally shaped forms of representation. As a teacher when we design the class, we are no longer in the path of what we respect students to learn. We are making a lesson plan to reach the teaching goal by understanding students’ background, culture, and needs. Use multimodal theories in teaching inspires student’s literacy practicing on writing and bring the interest of student’s literacy learning. For example, teacher use read-aloud to encourage students to think “m...
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ReplyDeleteGreat presentation! You summed up the semester well.