Due to the expanding variety of modes of communication and tools for meaning-making, multimodal representation and multiple forms of text have been a common occurrence. It is essential for today's reader/viewer to fo...Due to the expanding variety of modes of communication and tools for meaning-making, multimodal representation and multiple forms of text have been a common occurrence. It is essential for today's reader/viewer to foster the capacity to critically deconstruct and reconstruct multimodal texts. And it is a must to expand traditional conceptions of literacy to multiliteracies. This paper, from the perspective of both theories and practices, explores and analyzes visual literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, critical literacy, and postmodern literacy in college English pedagogy, so as to fully develop the learners' multiliteracies展开更多
We are delighted to be able to introduce this second special issue of the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, on behalf of the University of Exeter, the College of Humanities, and the Departments of M...We are delighted to be able to introduce this second special issue of the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, on behalf of the University of Exeter, the College of Humanities, and the Departments of Modern Languages and English. This special issue selects articles revised from papers delivered at the inaugural Fudan-Exeter Colloquium, 'Reading across Cultures: Global Configurations of Reception, Adaptation and Transmission', held at Fudan University, Shanghai, from 23 to 25 June 2014, and further articles developed from collaborative discussions between Fudan and Exeter colleagues around this central set of concerns.展开更多
文摘Due to the expanding variety of modes of communication and tools for meaning-making, multimodal representation and multiple forms of text have been a common occurrence. It is essential for today's reader/viewer to foster the capacity to critically deconstruct and reconstruct multimodal texts. And it is a must to expand traditional conceptions of literacy to multiliteracies. This paper, from the perspective of both theories and practices, explores and analyzes visual literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, critical literacy, and postmodern literacy in college English pedagogy, so as to fully develop the learners' multiliteracies
文摘We are delighted to be able to introduce this second special issue of the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, on behalf of the University of Exeter, the College of Humanities, and the Departments of Modern Languages and English. This special issue selects articles revised from papers delivered at the inaugural Fudan-Exeter Colloquium, 'Reading across Cultures: Global Configurations of Reception, Adaptation and Transmission', held at Fudan University, Shanghai, from 23 to 25 June 2014, and further articles developed from collaborative discussions between Fudan and Exeter colleagues around this central set of concerns.