Introducing Language, Literacy and Literature for Educators a2

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EDUC1023 Introducing Language, Literacy and Literature for Educator Assessment Two: Presentation Word Count: 1,500 (+/- 10%) FINAL Word Count: 1,472 Curtin University There are two parts to this assignment. Part 1: Multimodal text: Create a multimodal text, in the form of a poster, which is based on a children’s picture book. Part 2: Written explanation 1

Part One: Multimodal Poster 2

Part Two: Multimodality and Semiotic Systems in The Rabbits Over the years, almost all texts have become multimodal. They incorporate different visual and verbal semiotic systems to create meaning, such as pictures, illustrations, or verbal narratives (Barceló, 2015). Multimodality helps develop an understanding of a text which can be obtained from several semiotic systems and the relationships between them. Over time five semiotic systems have been identified. These consist of visual, spatial, audio, gestural, and linguistic. While these systems can be individually interpreted, they are often interwoven together better to understand the text (Pantaleo, 2012). For this reason, many educators incorporate picture books into their lessons as they build literacy skills and provide an authentic input and output of language skills to students (Barceló, 2015) and (Pantaleo, 2012). The Rabbits, by Shaun Tan, is a picture book that symbolises the discovery or subsequently the colonisation of what we today call Australia. The story is narrated from the perspective of the Indigenous Australians with a focus on the Australian colonisation process (Furlan, 2019). The story of The Rabbits follows from when The Rabbits first arrived as egger explorers, with the natives not knowing what to expect, subsequently ending with The Rabbits colonising and completely changing the customs and land of the native people through war building their houses over sacred land and enslaving the natives who would not conform to the new customs. The key elements that portray how semiotic systems convey meaning within the children's picture book, The Rabbits, are presented within the multimodal poster in Part One. The combination of text and image works together to explain how the interaction between the semiotic systems within the picture book conveys the meaning, specifically, how the story (shown on the poster) uses images to support further the ideas and issues presented through the text. A multimodal text is one that involves two or more semiotic systems combined to make a text integrated and multimodally whole. Multimodal texts deliver meaning through the different codes and conventions used, which are dependent on the semiotic systems used. Explicitly, in texts, multimodality focuses on exploring the connections within the semiotic systems and resources in relation to the meanings made (Lim, 2019). Students are exposed to many different types of multimodal texts and technology within the classroom. Because of this, they are already beginning to explore ways in which these resources can be implemented into their own literacy and writing (Zbaracki, 2015). However valuable these resources are, they are all dependent on translation and interpretation. For example, the interpretation of different multimodal texts may vary between different social or cultural groups depending on different cultural values. Therefore, it is the educator's role to acknowledge this challenge and prepare students to decode the meaning of said literacies 3

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