Image/text relations in narrative and information texts for children in print and electronic media: Multimodal text description for multiliteracies education. [ 2005-03-31 - 2008-06-30 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: A/Prof Len Unsworth (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Clare Painter (Chief Investigator) ,  Prof James Martin (Chief Investigator) ,  ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985 (Funded by)

Brief description Image/text relations in narrative and information texts for children in print and electronic media: Multimodal text description for multiliteracies education. This project will produce a new theory of the ways images and language interact to make meanings in electronic and traditional texts. The theory will be adapted to provide a new grammar of image/text relations that is accessible to students and teachers. It will enable the literacy teaching and learning required for today's multimodal texts to be based on an explicit systematic account of how different aspects of language and images are structured to make meanings. A grammar of image/text relations will facilitate consistency in literacy syllabus documents, more efficient teacher education in the literacies of multimodal texts, and more effective teaching of the literacies children need for the multimedia environment they live in.

Funding Amount $180,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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