Multimodal interaction

I place multimodal and digital literacies under this umbrella. Marsh and Larson (2015) define overarching discourse as “the various culturally organized ways of acting and being in the world, or ‘forms of life’, that are enacted, reproduced, or transformed through language in use” (p. 8). This of course is big “D” discourse. I think multimodal and digital literacies belong under this umbrella because they essential examine the…

two major terms that accompanies ABC interaction and that is firing order and trigger. The firing order will determine what needs to change in order to manage ourselves and knowing the trigger of our ABC interactions suggests which component to address first if we desire a change. It is important to notice that one ABC interaction can lead others and it can take the pattern of either a downward or an upward spiral. A downward spiral is a series of ABC interaction that lead to a negative outcome…

University This paper explores the connection between students and preferred learning style. A constructivist perspective of student learning can be described as a progression of internalizing or building the knowledge presented by interactions with the instructor and other students (Dunn et al., 1995). Students these days have very busy lives and are always looking for study methods. There are tons of different study methods in use this day, one of the most popular is the…

determining what vocabulary should be utilized, the AAC team must first determine the contexts and situations that are priorities for intervention. This is important because an individual’s vocabulary will change depending on the circumstances of an interaction (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2013). When identifying the priority contexts, they should be meaningful to the client, interactive, motivating, and have a high impact on the individual (Light et al., 2005). Moreover, Light et al. (2005) also state…

the importance of picture books in the growth of people, particularly in the one of those who need special schooling. In order to attest it, the importance of the image in a picture book and of picture book itself will be explained; in addition, multimodal approach and how picture books work in this methodology will be demonstrated. The books used to write this essay are the following ones: Words about pictures: The narrative…

Our cognition processes information coming from different channels of sensory modalities and integrates it smoothly. In most of the time we are not even aware of the modalities of the information, rather all we are conscious of is the information itself. Having more senses provides more accuracy in different dimensions of an event such as time and space. For example, one sense is less accurate about carrying time dimension of an event, while other is less accurate about estimating the location.…

delivered. Human language is a very complex system and the communication through human language is one of the distinctive features of human beings. In a narrow sense, language refers to the spoken words, the speech as the media of communication and interaction among people in the social world. Language theories have been constructed by numerous researchers in history, and these theories have underpinned language instructional methods to native English speakers as well as to English language…

I am eager to expand the scope of Pascal Menoret’s (2014) groundbreaking contribution to understandings of male-to-male sexual practices in the Arabian Peninsula to include a social semiotic multimodal approach, examining sexual identities through texts and representational…

2). Ergo, Appendix 1 is a multimodal semiotic entity that presents and critiques the dominant discourse surrounding gender-differentiated parenting. It includes ethnically diverse participants and uses a diptych layout to illustrate how this practice harms girls of all backgrounds…

Language, as the other tangible objects, is essential in the study of subcultures, as it works hand in hand with the other signs, thus it mobilizes material resources to create meaning. Mendoza-Denton creatively link various practices and signs with discursive language use as resources to mark identity and maintain it through distributed memory. This memory does not have to be necessarily actual, but can be imaginative, and it can provide “a stable image upon which new elements are superimposed”…