Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 22, 2012
Designing and Reading Multimodal Texts: Modes, Media, Knowledge and Meaning by Gunther Kress, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London The increasing intensity of multimodality in texts of all kinds is forcing us to look newly and more seriously at modes other than those of speech and writing, in an attempt to understand their contribution…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on September 15, 2009
My research starts from the recognition of the importance of teaching media literacy in Korean—a form of literacy which is becoming an essential part of language education today, since knowing how to “read” sophisticated layers of multimodal communication in the written mode of technology-mediated communication is becoming more and more a necessary skill for reading…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on June 18, 2009
Teaching Language and Culture with Film Marilyn Fabe, The Language of Film Mark Kaiser, Teaching with Film Clips Anne-Christine Rice, Implementing a Curriculum Built Around Film Sabine Levet, Cross-Cultural Comparison through Film Rick Kern, Making Connections between Film and Literacy Thomas J. Garza, Film as (Con)Text: Using Visual Media in Russian Language and Culture…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on October 23, 2005
Metaphors to Die For: Towards a Rhetoric of National Symbols by Michael Geisler, Dean of Language Schools and Schools Abroad, Professor in Linguistics and Languages, Middlebury College, Vermont Panel of Respondents Fayton Henderson, Assistant Coordinator, German Mark Kaiser, Associate Director of the BLC Karen Moller, Coordinator, Scandinavian Sonia Shiri, Coordinator, Arabic More than mere decoration…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 4, 2002
Image Banks and the Semantics of Contemporary Visual Communication by Theo Van Leeuwen, Professor, Cadiff University Monday, November 4, 2002 370 Dwinelle Hall