Multimodal Literacies MOOC’s Updates

Section 13: Making Audio and Oral Meanings

Media embedded April 23, 2016
Media embedded April 23, 2016
Media embedded April 23, 2016
Media embedded April 23, 2016

Audio and oral meanings share the sense of hearing as the primary medium of reception. Audio meanings range from ambient or background sounds in our environment, to sounds that have symbolic meaning, and to the complex meanings represented in music. Oral meanings carry with them the basic qualities of audio meanings as we modulate volume and pitch in the sounds of speaking. Despite the important connections, there are large and significant differences between the ways in which language is formed in the oral and written modes. These differences are what motivates mode-shifting in communications and learning, not just between oral and written meanings, but across the full range of modes of meaning.

To explore these issues further, see the supporting material on the Literacies website.

Comment Below: Of what significance are the differences between speaking and writing for literacies teaching and learning?

Make an Update: Analyze an example of a curriculum resource or practice which connects audio and/or oral meanings to reading or writing. Use this example to explain the dimensions of multimodal literacies pedagogy.

 

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