Easy to produce multimodal texts include posters, storyboards, oral presentations, picture books, brochures, slide shows (PowerPoint), blogs, and podcasts. Why teaching creating multimodal texts is importantĬreating multimodal texts is an increasingly common practice in contemporary classrooms.
What teachers and students need to know.Why teaching EAL/D learners to create multilingual multimodal texts is important.Why teaching creating multimodal texts is important.The Victorian Curriculum recognises that students need to be able to create a range of increasingly complex and sophisticated spoken, written, and multimodal texts for different purposes and audiences, with accuracy, fluency and purpose. Creating digital multimodal texts involves use of communication technologies, however, multimodal texts can also be paper based, or live performances. Multimodal texts combine two or more modes such as written language, spoken language, visual (still and moving image), audio, gestural, and spatial meaning (The New London Group, 2000 Cope and Kalantzis, 2009).
