What happens when multimodality comes into the classroom? A study of Swedish children’s use of multiple modes while creating narrative text
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The aim of this study is to analyse and describe the impact of digital devices with a mult imodal character on chi ldren's creations of narrative texts. The focus will be on the process of creating texts, the conditions for creating texts and the results, the texts. Text is seen as multimodal and the theoretical approach is social semiotics. The method will involve a multimodal didactic design approach. Data sources will include observations, interviews and text analysis. The analyses will comprise content analysis, writing discourse analysis and multimodal text analysis. The study is stil l in progress so some expected outcomes are presented in the text.
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