Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the
assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or codes that are meaningful to them so as to
make sense of any human experience. The tensions often encountered in reading classrooms by
adolescent readers - between what is real and fantasy artifact and image object and
perception - are made manifest in this book and the ways in which individuals shape or are
shaped by sign and symbol systems or program elements that surround their learning and
communicating environments are systematically explored. The contributors promote the generative
power of transmediation of multiple sign systems while challenging the privileged position of
the language teaching methods still prevalent in some United States public schools.
