Transforming Literacies and Language Multimodality and Literacy in the New Media Age

Looks at radical reconceptualizations of language and literacy pedagogy in the new media age.

Acknowledgements \ About the Contributors \ Foreword, John Hedberg  \ Introduction \ Part I: Implementation and task design \ 1. Charting a pathway: Embedding ICT and new literacies into the curriculum Katina Zammit \ 2. The generative use of ICT in the language arts: Strategies in learning task design and implementation Denise E. De Souza & Phillip A. Towndrow \ Part II: Multimodality and digital narratives \ 3. What Now for Language in a Multimedial World? David Malinowski & Mark Evan Nelson \ 4. Multimodal literacy in extended learning activities Libo Guo, Siti Azlinda & Lynde Tan \ Part III: Computer-supported collaborative learning \ 5. Fostering active, language-intensive online interaction: An intercultural communication perspective John Sivell \ 6. Developing students' New Literacies with computer-supported collaborative argumentation Seng-Chee Tan & Aik-Ling Tan \ 7. Unpacking students' ‘Voices of Reason': The case of web-based scaffolding for teaching argumentation Caroline Ho & Yam San Chee \ Part IV: Corpora and data driven language learning \ 8. Viewing language patterns: Data visualization for data-driven language learning Paul Doyle \9. Using corpus and web language data to create EAP teaching materials David Oakey \ Part V: Web 2.0 and mobile technologies \ 10. Blogging for pedagogical purposes: a transformational methodology for post-secondary education, Brad Blackstone & Mark Wilkinson \ 11. Why write with wikis? Ashley Tan \ 12. Wot did he say or could u not c him 4 dust? Written and spoken creativity in text messaging Caroline Tagg \ Bibliography \ Index