Week 4 Tutorial: Exploring the Teacher's Role in New Literacies

By Pravinaa & Thasha

Part 1: Preparation – Teacher’s Role in New Literacies

The teacher’s responsibilities in building on the students’ involvement with multimodal texts, such as guiding students to interact with various modes of communication, such as texts, images, and sounds, to develop their digital and visual literacy alongside traditional literacy.
Next, teachers are expected to pick and design lessons that include applicable multimodal materials that are in line with the learning objectives.
Third, to ensure students interpret and link the meanings and differences between the different modes of texts, the teacher must impart direct instructions.
Following that, when introducing complex or abstract language concepts to students, the teacher could utilise visual representations to strategically build up on their comprehension.
Simultaneously, promoting the students’ critical thinking via analytical and reflective practices can help them to grasp the intricacy of the meaning these models of texts can convey.
Finally, it is crucial to model the usage of these digital tools and support the s students when producing their own multimodal outputs while amplifying their creativity and language command.

Part 2: Multimodal Lesson Plan

Level: A2 Pre-Intermediate (10-12 year old)

Duration: 30 minutes

Skill: Writing & Listening

Grammar structure: Adjectives

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to identify and use descriptive adjectives to describe characters, places, and events from The Sleeping Beauty story.
Students will develop sequencing skills by accurately arranging visual story events and composing simple descriptive sentences in the correct order.
Students will create and present a visual infographic using descriptive vocabulary, demonstrating their ability to apply multimodal resources to express ideas clearly.

Presentation (10 minutes)

The lesson begins with a short YouTube video on The Sleeping Beauty story using vivid descriptive language and strong visual cues.
The teacher displays an infographic summarizing descriptive adjectives and their visual representations related to the video.

Practice (10 minutes)

Provide students with softcopy images depicting main events from Sleeping Beauty in a folder on Google Classroom.
Students arrange the images in the correct order and add simple descriptive sentences to each image, focusing on using target vocabulary.
Students upload their arranged sequences and sentences in the Forum section of Google Classroom, enabling the class to view and discuss different interpretations.

Production (10 minutes)

Students are paired up and instructed to create a simple infographic on Canva, illustrating a place or event they want to describe, incorporating descriptive vocabulary learned.
Finally, they are to post their creations via Google Classroom Forum and present verbally for peer feedback.

Resources & Tools:

ESLTECH