Multimodality and Visual Critical Literacy in English Language Teaching
Investigating the Textual Production Activities Proposed by the Textbook Time to Share.
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Multimodality, Critical visual literacy, English Language TeachingAbstract
This article aims to investigate the English teaching as an Additional Language through the writing activities from the textbook Time to share (AGA; MARTÍNEZ, 2015), of the teachers` book, from ninth level from elementary school to verify how writing production, which integrates languages and semiosis, can reveal critical visual / multimodal literacy. This work is maintained by the multimodality studies by Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996, 2006), Jewitt (2009), Bezemer and Kress (2008, 2016); based on critical visual literacy by Callow (2008, 2012, 2013) and on texts composition approaches purposed by Ribeiro (2016, 2018). The results reveal that the writing activities proposals of the 9th grade textbook bring relevant themes to work in English teaching. However, when it comes to textual production, in addition to the verbal mode, the analysis revealed that the book presents an insufficient approach concerning the texts that integrate words and images, despite having a visually attractive appearance. Consequently, the textbook ends up limiting the literacy agencies to the written system.
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