An Exploration of the Multimodal Parallels Between Artefacts Designed by Primary and High School Students from South Africa (81625)
Session Chair: Nicholas De Jager
Sunday, 16 June 2024 12:15
Session: Session 2
Room: Salle 103
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This study aims to highlight the semiotic relationships between several artefacts produced by primary and high school students from South Africa, in terms of their use of linguistic, visual, and aural modes. Collected during the author’s postgraduate studies and subsequent research projects, these artefacts range from drawings, paintings and sculptures, to songs, poems, storyboards and gamifications. Each artefact was designed in response to a multimodal intervention programme which had been implemented in various schools, to enrich students’ readings and experiences of prescribed literature. This has provided a wealth of data to help answer current questions in the multimodal field, including the ways in which linguistic texts can be transmodalised into artworks and contemporary forms of mass media. To build upon the findings generated from this past research, a more comparative lens is now adopted, and the potential parallels between these artefacts (especially with regards to their use of line, colour, texture, shape, sound and movement) are explored to gain further insights into how meaning is made and ‘remade’ during the re-semiotisation process. Since a wide range of school set works – including poems, short stories, novels and plays – had served as source texts for the students’ artistic redesigns, the study also discerns the many intertextual connections that exist in the literary canon, and how these connections are perceived and represented by students of diverse ages, cultural backgrounds and socio-economic contexts. In light of this artefactual data, the many affordances of a multimodal pedagogy for literature learning can further be emphasised.
Authors:
Nicholas De Jager, Akademia, South Africa
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Nic de Jager is currently a lecturer at Akademia Institute of Higher Education, Pretoria, South Africa.
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