Why Change Writing? Adapting to Shifting Communication
What is Multimodal Writing?
Multimodal writing is the creation of a text that utilizes at least two of linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial communication. One of the most widely utilized forms of multimodal writing is the video essay. Below is one such example.
Multimodal writing assessments can better reinforce learning and allow students to express their knowledge more accurately. Multimodal instruction increases engagement and retention.
"The new editorial team at Language Arts has signaled a change in the literacy landscape that puts images, gestures, music, movement, animation and other representational modes on equal footing with language.
- Marjorie Siegel -
"Given the reading and writing responses of the children we studied, the multimodal nature of the lingustic sign is a key feature not only in literacy but in literacy learning."
- Carolyn Burke -
"Surely it is time for all those interested in multiple languages and language variants, in diverse cultural practices and world views, in the expanding symbolic repertoire of our time to appropriate and re-accentuate this word "basics."
- Ann Dyson -