Seeing Academically Marginalized Students’ Multimodal Designs From a Position of Strength.

This article examines multimodal texts created by a cohort of academically marginalized secondary school students in Singapore as part of a language arts unit on persuasive composition. Using an interpretivist qualitative approach, we examine students’ multimodal designs to highlight opportunities t...

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Publicado en:Written Communication Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 104 - 135
Autores principales: Anderson, Kate T., Stewart, Olivia G., Kachorsky, Dani
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Apr2017
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