Multimodal composition in a college ESL class: New tools, traditional norms By Dong-shin Shin and Tony Cimasko - 3 views

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  #1 Khou Xiong on 05 Mar 12

   

  Multimodal composition in a college ESL class: New tools, traditional norms
  By Dong-shin Shin and Tony Cimasko
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461508000649
  
  This article is about looking into better writing and communication through multimodal. Both authors stated that multimodal approaches to composition provide writers a powerful tools for sharing knowledge and self-expression. Multimodal would mean computers, digital multimedia, audio-visual to help writers. "The multimodal approach to writing has become more significant with the transfer of writing from paper-based books to computer screens, in that writers have more choices for making and representing meanings" (Cimasko, Shin). The authors continue on by stating that ESL writing course who used multimodal find it to help express their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This article tells us how the authors did their studies. The authors allowed the student to choose how they are going to write and what kind of visual they would like to put on it. What the authors conclusion was that teacher need to expose the students to many different kind of multimodal texts and strategies. The authors also stated that ESL students who are familiar with multimodal will not automatically used some of the multimodal, such as web page design. The authors suggested that researcher should look deeper into the student's past experiences and present attitudes regarding multimodal composition. I understand that visual aid would help ESL students have better understanding of their topics but what I want to know is how are student supposed to use multimodal in a scholarly paper?

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Multimodal composition in a college ESL class: New tools, traditional norms <br /> By Dong-shin Shin and Tony Cimasko <br /> <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461508000649" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461508000649</a> <br /> <br /> This article is about looking into better writing and communication through multimodal. Both authors stated that multimodal approaches to composition provide writers a powerful tools for sharing knowledge and self-expression. Multimodal would mean computers, digital multimedia, audio-visual to help writers. "The multimodal approach to writing has become more significant with the transfer of writing from paper-based books to computer screens, in that writers have more choices for making and representing meanings" (Cimasko, Shin). The authors continue on by stating that ESL writing course who used multimodal find it to help express their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This article tells us how the authors did their studies. The authors allowed the student to choose how they are going to write and what kind of visual they would like to put on it. What the authors conclusion was that teacher need to expose the students to many different kind of multimodal texts and strategies. The authors also stated that ESL students who are familiar with multimodal will not automatically used some of the multimodal, such as web page design. The authors suggested that researcher should look deeper into the student's past experiences and present attitudes regarding multimodal composition. I understand that visual aid would help ESL students have better understanding of their topics but what I want to know is how are student supposed to use multimodal in a scholarly paper?</div>

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