Use of multiliteracies
Rapid advancement in technology has brought a profound change in literacy
by turning it into digital and multimodal literacy. Multiliteracies expand the world of
children’s books and increase the opportunities for children to explore the
books both at school and at home. These digital and visual literacies enable
readers to read signs, images and pictures and involve new skills and
metaphorical ways of reading (Winch et al. 2010). MUDs and Story Palace as
mentioned by Winch et al. (2010) are sites that not only provide
opportunities for fun with books
through narrative and language enrich activities of drama and role-play but
also allow children to create their own characters, scenes and even change the
ending etc. Thus multimodal literacies offer endless interaction between verbal
and visual languages and expand the ways children interact with text, develop
skill associated with imagination and exploration (Winch et al. 2010).
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Vision is an essential part of learning and making sense. Student’s
literacy development is heavily influenced by visual acuity and visual tracking
and ‘’the structure of many digital texts opens up options about where to start
reading a text-what reading path to take’’ (Jewitt, 2008, p. 259).
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