module 4

• A multimodal text is a text that combines images, sounds, and words. it production can be low-tech, medium-tech, or high-tech. It conveys meaning through a combination of elements to form several semiotic systems like picture books, text books, graphic novels, videos, e-posters, web sites, and oral storytelling.
• Paper-based multimodal texts include picture books, text books, graphic novels, comics, and posters.
• Live multimodal texts, for example, dance, performance, and oral storytelling, convey meaning through combinations of various modes such as gestural, spatial, audio, and oral language.
• Digital multimodal texts include film, animation, slide shows, e-posters, digital stories, podcasts, and web pages that may include hyperlinks to external pronunciation guides or translations
• LINGUISTIC

  Vocabulary, structure, grammar of oral/written language, word choice, delivery of spoken or written text (tone), organization into sentences, phrases, paragraphs.
• AUDIO

  •Volume, pitch and rhythm of music and sound effects.
• VISUAL

  •Color, vectors and viewpoint in still and moving images, layout, style, size, perspective.
• GESTURAL

  •Movement, facial expression and body language, hand gestures, interactions between people.
• SPATIAL

  •Proximity, direction, position of layout, organization of objects in space arrangement
• Critical Reading.Involves a deeper examination of the claims put forth as well as the supporting points and possible counterarguments.