{"id":316,"date":"2013-01-07T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2013-01-16T23:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T06:07:23","slug":"multimodality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/projects\/multimodality\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium on kinesthetic games, multimodality, and performance in English classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3d4b53;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">ELL learners require skills to aid them in comprehension of texts which they will interact with once they have entered mainstream English. Through incorporating multi-modal techniques, Shakespeare can be made more accessible to ELL students without compromising the authenticity and richness of the original text. In teaching a dramatic text, not only should teachers incorporate dramatic teaching strategies but other modalities which can encourage various kinds of learners to excel in their areas of ability and interest. The use of a multimodal approach to students of multiple intelligences is not only more engaging but provides a deeper, fuller understanding of written text.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Individual Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/projects\/multimodality\/kinesthetic-games\/\">Kinesthetic games and activities for comprehension and engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rita \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/projects\/multimodality\/multimodality-in-non-mainstream-english-classrooms\/\">Multimodality in non-mainstream English classrooms<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Corinna \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/projects\/multimodality\/multimodality-for-enrichment-and-effectiveness-in-teaching-shakespeare\/\">Multimodality for enrichment and effectiveness in teaching Shakespeare<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context ELL learners require skills to aid them in comprehension of texts which they will interact with once they have entered mainstream English. Through incorporating multi-modal techniques, Shakespeare can be made more accessible to ELL students without compromising the authenticity and richness of the original text. In teaching a dramatic text, not only should teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/educ451\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}