English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy

‘English Teaching and New Literacies Pedagogy: Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives’ is about the fusion of media and narrative, and explores theoretical and practical dimensions of young people's engagement with contemporary forms of text. It showcases a range of critical interpretative approaches for integrating multimedia narratives into English teaching contexts, including animated films such as Shaun Tan's ‘The Lost Thing’, digital novels such as ‘Inanimate Alice’ and ‘5 Haitis’, and a virtual treatment of Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’. English teachers across grade levels will recognize the valuing of literature and will appreciate the practical pedagogy and fostering of creativity as students are encouraged to explore new forms of narrative. In the context of developing expertise in knowing how multimodal texts work, students can apply that knowledge in their own authoring of digital multimedia narratives.