Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom (Advances in Applied Linguistics)

by Carey Jewitt (Author), Gunther Kress (Author), JonOgborn (Author), Charalampos Tsatsarelis (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $30.95

  This book takes a radically different look at communication, and in doing so presents a series of challenges to accepted views on language, on communication, on teaching and, above all, on learning. Drawing on extensive research in science classrooms, it presents a view of communication in which language is not necessarily communication - image, gesture, speech, writing, models, spatial and bodily codes. The action of students in learning is radically rethought: all participants in communication are seen as active transformers of the meaning resources around them, and this approach opens a new window on the processes of learning.