LiteracyPub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1111/lit.12355
Michelle Cannon, Theo Bryer, Sara Hawley
{"title":"Incorporating digital animation in a school play: multimodal literacies, structure of feeling and resources of hope","authors":"Michelle Cannon, Theo Bryer, Sara Hawley","doi":"10.1111/lit.12355","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we reflect on our work with 10- and 11-year-olds in an inner London primary school developing a multimodal school play that integrated digital animation into a more conventionally structured Year 6 production. We are media literacy, drama and cultural studies researchers and teachers, arguing for more inclusive, holistic and multimodal schooled literacy practices. We explore roles and opportunities for enactment that the multimodal school play offers, while looking at pupil empowerment through the mobilisation of pupils' existing capabilities and sensitivities. We present a case study that employs semi-structured interviews and observations from which we construct visual and analytic narratives with a focus on participants' practices and responses. Raymond Williams's ‘structure of feeling’ and ‘<i>Resources of Hope</i>’ help us make sense of our data. In particular, we note the emergence of new roles through literacy practices that incorporate the tools and artefacts of animation. We highlight the affective dimension and inclusive nature of emergent literacy practices that integrate interactive drama and meaning-making with digital media and look at how these practices have the potential to disrupt entrenched classroom hierarchies and tackle inequalities, particularly for children who are disenfranchised by schooling and traditional school literacy practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 2","pages":"144-156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1111/lit.12354
Sandra Girbés-Peco, Itxaso Tellado, Garazi López de Aguileta, Lena de Botton Fernández
{"title":"Promoting high-quality interactions among early childhood education minority students: a case study of dialogic literary gatherings","authors":"Sandra Girbés-Peco, Itxaso Tellado, Garazi López de Aguileta, Lena de Botton Fernández","doi":"10.1111/lit.12354","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quality dialogue and interactions in the classroom are crucial for creating effective learning environments and reducing inequalities from an early age. Dialogic reading interventions are known to be beneficial in early childhood education, but there is still much to learn about creating the most conducive interactions in the classroom. This article focuses on dialogic literary gatherings (DLGs), a successful educational action that introduces classic literature to children. DLGs create a learning context where rich interactions emerge from an egalitarian dialogue, valuing all contributions regardless of the person's position in making inferences. The study analysed instructional, emotional and social interactions in DLGs in an early childhood classroom in a disadvantaged Spanish neighbourhood, using a communicative research methodology. Findings show that DLGs facilitate high-quality interactions between teachers and students and among students. The pre-school teacher used DLGs to stretch the learning and thinking of participating 4- and 5-year-old students, promoting self-regulation and prosocial behaviours. DLGs can play a vital role in creating a more equitable and stimulating learning environment in early childhood education.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 2","pages":"228-239"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135266517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1111/lit.12353
Lars Holm, Helle Pia Laursen, Annegrethe Ahrenkiel
{"title":"‘I'm rewriting the law’ when children bring literacy into nursery school","authors":"Lars Holm, Helle Pia Laursen, Annegrethe Ahrenkiel","doi":"10.1111/lit.12353","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12353","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on an analysis of three literacy events in nursery schools, this article focuses on how literacy forms part of children's social practices and co-creates the language environment in the nursery and how place, affect and materiality play a key role in children's multimodal and embodied meaning-making around literacy. The analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two nursery schools, in which we followed different children through their days in order to explore how they used language in different contexts, what characterised their language practices and what appeared to encourage and constrain their desire to express themselves. It shows how the written word means much more to children than knowledge about the structure of books and identification of letters and how children draw on their own experience and include the place and the available materials in their joint meaning-making processes. Against this background, we argue for the need for a reconceptualisation of what literacy is and can be in a nursery school context and for a discussion of the implications of this for teaching literacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"72-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1111/lit.12346
Betlem Soler Pardo
{"title":"‘Booktuber: promoting reading and literacy in the classroom among Spanish pre-service teachers through a video review’","authors":"Betlem Soler Pardo","doi":"10.1111/lit.12346","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12346","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Developments in technology have led to a rethinking of teaching delivery: instructors have found in digital devices an important way to attract students' attention. One of the many applications this technology could potentially have would be to encourage young learners to read through new multimedia products such as Web 2.0. In this article, I provide an account of teaching carried out at the University of Valencia, in the ‘Foreign Language I (English)’ module of the Primary Education degree. The activity was based on the characteristics of Booktubers with the goal of, first, promoting reading and reflection on literature and, second, to improve linguistic, communicative, literary and digital competences in EFL through the elaboration of a video review in the classroom. Thus, I have focused on the formal style from a didactic viewpoint, yet undergraduates had to read literature and write a digital review as part of the tasks to be assessed in the subject. For this purpose, the Youtube platform will be shown to be seen as an emerging source of exploration, which could be exploited as a successful didactic tool. Finally, I also set out to show the challenges both students and teacher had to face throughout the process of using the Booktuber tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"120-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12346","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48512069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1111/lit.12348
Sam Holdstock
{"title":"Using Interactive Fiction to Stimulate Metalinguistic Talk in the English Classroom","authors":"Sam Holdstock","doi":"10.1111/lit.12348","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12348","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Interactive Fiction (IF)—a digital form of non-linear narrative writing—requires readers to respond, to make choices that shape their reading experience. I argue that such choices can be put to use in the classroom, helping teachers to facilitate metalinguistic talk. In this article, I offer a clear conceptualisation of metalinguistic talk, drawing upon existing research to create a useful framework comprised of four characteristics. Using this framework, and with reference to interview data and field notes, I analyse and consider two transcripts of classroom talk in order to explore the extent to which a particular work of IF enabled me to facilitate metalinguistic talk with a class of 16–17-year-old English Literature students. The lesson in question formed part of an action research project exploring the possibilities for IF in the secondary school English classroom. I argue that the choices contained within <i>A Great Gatsby</i>, a work of IF which I designed via a process of critical-creative textual intervention and using Fitzgerald's <i>The Great Gatsby</i> as my source material, can help to scaffold metalinguistic talk—conversations <i>about</i> language.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"48-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43746597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1111/lit.12350
Sylvia Pantaleo
{"title":"Elementary students' engagement in transduction and creative and critical thinking","authors":"Sylvia Pantaleo","doi":"10.1111/lit.12350","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12350","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Student engagement in the process of transduction concomitantly affords them with opportunities to develop and express their critical and creative thinking competences. Reconfiguring or remaking knowledge or meaning in modes other than those of the original sources of information requires affective, imaginative and cognitive activity by sign-makers. In this article, I present examples of elementary students' transduction work and discuss their semiotic meaning-making with reference to the concepts of critical and creative thinking. During the study featured in this article, Grade 4 students engaged in the process of transduction when participating in activities about elements of visual art and design and conventions of the medium comics, when exploring picturebooks and graphic novels and when composing and explaining their own multimodal texts. The students' transmodal meaning-making showed how, in the context of the research classrooms, the purposefully designed pedagogy and activities both required and nurtured students' critical and creative thinking, which simultaneously provided the students with opportunities to extend their knowledge and deepen their understandings of the concepts and curriculum content under study.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"58-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12350","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1111/lit.12345
Jill Steel
{"title":"Reading to Dogs as a form of animal-assisted education: are positive outcomes supported by quality research?","authors":"Jill Steel","doi":"10.1111/lit.12345","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reading to Dogs (RTD) in schools, a form of animal-assisted education (AAE), is growing in popularity and prevalence. RTD involves children reading to a registered dog with benefits to well-being and reading outcomes thought to arise because of the unconditional positive regard and non-critical listening bestowed on the child by the dog. Yet RTD research is underdeveloped, and the practice lacks a substantial evidence base, casting dubiety over RTD's suitability for adoption in schools. This paper examines the research to date, exploring methodological factors and the potential efficacy of RTD for improving children's reading outcomes. Building on Hall et al.'s (2016) systematic review of RTD, related reviews, in addition to individual studies of relevance, are explored, followed by a brief discussion of further pertinent issues in RTD research. Cautious optimism about RTD as an impactful intervention to support reading outcomes is suggested, providing impetus for further research of increased quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"102-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41652681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiteracyPub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1111/lit.12349
Robin Griffith, Jennifer M. Smith
{"title":"Another Fever Year? Making sense of pandemics with a historical graphic novel","authors":"Robin Griffith, Jennifer M. Smith","doi":"10.1111/lit.12349","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lit.12349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This qualitative study highlights how children's literature can serve as a springboard for discussing current events while making connections with a similar historical event. Undergraduate students enrolled in children's literature courses read the graphic novel <i>Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918</i> and discussed the parallels between the book and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicate strong text-to-self and text-to-world connections between the events of the flu of 1918 highlighted in the graphic novel and those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Connections included restrictions and closures, mask mandates, vaccine development, medical theories, and theories of spread. Information dissemination and consumption was a prominent theme.</p>","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"58 1","pages":"83-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45928828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}