4. Factors Affecting Choice of Multimodality
◦ Social Context of Literacy
◦ Literacy within the academic
community
◦ Goals of the Course
◦ Affordances of the Technology
5. Social Context of Literacy
◦ Bringing Literacies from Outside the
Classroom
◦ Relationship with print text
◦ Multiple forms of literacy
◦ Role of visual, print, and text literaciess
6. LITERACY WITHIN THE ACADEMIC
COMMUNITY
• Challenge to academic discourse
• Print text challenged oral discourse
• Multiple Literacies bring in student voice and choice of
images and music
• Approaches to intellectual property and plagiarism
7. ◦Goals of the Course
• Traditional Goals of academic courses
• MIxing voice and texts (images)
• New goals: translingualism and the use of student
language and story
• Canagarajah (2018) approach to rhetorical translingualism
– birolage, assemblage, rhizomatics
• Goals of multimodality – mixing texts, orality, images, and
music
• Choosing copyrighted Intellectual Property and
appropriate attribution
9. Connecting two forms of literacy in one space
◦ Role of Academic Literacy
◦ Questions about transfer in applied linguistics and multilingual composition
◦ how the connections with voice and texts
◦ Use of additional technologiest for reflection: blogs, online storyboards.
