Multimodal Literacy challenges dominant ideas around language learning and representation.
Using a rich variety of examples it shows the range of representational and communicational
modes involved in learning through image animated movement writing speech gesture or gaze.
The effect of these modes on learning is explored in different sites including formal learning
across the curriculum in primary secondary and higher education classrooms as well as
learning in the home. The notion of literacy and learning as a primary linguistic
accomplishment is questioned in favor of the multimodal character of learning and literacy. By
illustrating how a range of modes contributes to the shaping of knowledge and what it means to
be a learner Multimodal Literacy provides a multimodal framework and conceptual tools for a
fundamental rethinking of literacy and learning.
