Advances in Language and Education

by Anne McCabe and Mick O'Donnell

This book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the classroom. The first section looks at issues of multimodality, in which the definition of a text is expanded to include not only that which is written down, but also the interaction of writing, graphics, and audiovisual material. The contributors explores ways in which language education can be expanded to deal with multimodal discourse,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826489605
• ISBN13: 9780826489609
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"