Mills,+K.,+(2009)

=Mills, K., (2009) //Multiliteracies: Interrograting Competing Discourses.//Language and Education, [Electronic Version] 23.2 (pp 103-116) =

Nearly every classroom is a multicultural classroom and the needs for multiple pedagogies to provide all learners equal opportunity. Mills discusses the multimodal metalanguage for literacy curriculum and the potential limitations of the pedagogy of multiliteracies within classroom discourses. There is a wide range of digital texts that are used within the classroom and educators need to critically select texts to culturally engage all learners. Multiliteracies pedagogy aims at moving literacy to inclusive of informal, open-ended, multimodal forms of communication to support a productive society. Reading is not just about learning to read from a book or other printed material but combining many forms of textual practices - Linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial that caters for the diversity of cultures and subcultures within the class.

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