Multimodal Signs of Learning

Tracking Semiosis in the Classroom

Shirley Palframan

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Routledge
31 December 2021

linguistics; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Examinations & assessment; Teaching skills & techniques

Series: Routledge Research in Education

Multimodal Signs of Learning proposes a methodology to uncover evidence of learning in students’ multimodal compositions. Informed by social semiotic theory, the book tracks representation of subject content from physical and embodied teaching resources to students’ handmade artefacts and physical presentations.

Using materials from secondary school history and science classrooms, multimodal realizations of specific representational processes are tracked from the input of resources through to the students’ multimodal compositions – their posters, models and physical presentations. Through tracking semiosis, the book exposes the epistemologies inherent in the representational choices articulated in the students’ multimodal designs. These, it is argued, are to be valued as signs of learning. Learning is thus characterized as ‘design’ and the transformation of subject content through representation in different modes shown not only to promote learning, but also to contain evidence for its recognition.

The book raises important questions about what constitutes multimodal learning and how it can be applied. It contributes to the growing body of research into the changing dynamics of classrooms and assessment practices and will be of great interest to researchers, and academics in the fields of education research, multimodality, semiotics and communication.

By: Shirley Palframan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032040028
ISBN 10: 1032040025
Series: Routledge Research in Education
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 31 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shirley Palframan has 25 years experience in international education and completed her PhD at the London Institute of Education.

Reviews for Multimodal Signs of Learning: Tracking Semiosis in the Classroom

This book offers a systematic methodological contribution to the field of multimodality, whilst at the same time contributing to understandings of learning in rapidly changing classroom contexts. Arlene Archer, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town