Interpreting Old Texts with New Tools: Digital Multimodal Composition for a High School Reading Assignment

Autor/inn/en	Higgs, Jennifer M.; Kim, Grace MyHyun
Titel	Interpreting Old Texts with New Tools: Digital Multimodal Composition for a High School Reading Assignment
Quelle	In: English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 21 (2022) 2, S.128-142 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1175-8708
DOI	10.1108/ETPC-07-2020-0079
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Reading Assignments; Technology Uses in Education; Classics (Literature); Learner Engagement; Language Arts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Sprachkultur
Abstract	Purpose: Research on nonschool settings suggests young people benefit from digital multimodal composition. Less is known about how digital composing can support students as they interpret required literary class texts. To understand the potential benefits and challenges of digitally composing for literary analysis, design interviews with two high school students were conducted to examine their processes as they designed digital multimodal compositions to interpret Anglo-Saxon poems. Grounded in the social semiotic theory of multimodality, this study aims to examine how students engaged in literary analysis and interpretive digital composition within secondary ELA. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative classroom data were collected through digital means over a six-week period: a whole-class student survey, focal student semistructured design interviews, emails, field notes, analytic memos and student-created digital artifacts. Findings: Students' print-based literary engagements and digital multimodal composition processes were mutually shaped. Additionally, digital multimodal composition offered entry points into challenging print-based literary texts, resulting in understandings enacted across multiple forms of mediation. Research limitations/implications: The study focused on one cycle of multimodal composition. Additional studies of students' digital multimodal composition processes in ELA classrooms over time could be beneficial to the field. Practical implications: The study identifies an approach to digital multimodal composition that may help teachers address and integrate core disciplinary objectives. Originality/value: This study contributes to scholarship concerned with how "new" technologies and "old" literacies co-exist in contexts requiring students to engage in expanded communication modes alongside specific academic literacies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01