期刊名称：Children's Literature in English Language Education
电子版ISSN：2195-5212
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：52-73
出版社：CLELEjournal
摘要：Multimodal literature can be a motivating educational resource for learners due to the integration of different modes, their visual appeal, and learner-centred themes. Researchers today agree that reading authentic texts and helping learners develop an interest in free voluntary reading (FVR) can have great benefits for the development of foreign language proficiency. The provision of rich and meaningful input through texts that engage the learner affectively and cognitively can thus facilitate language acquisition. What English language teachers require is a hands-on approach for integrating multimodal texts such as picturebooks and graphic novels in order to support their pupils in understanding the interplay of different modes within the text. This is vital so that students and teachers alike perceive the reading of multimodal books as both enjoyable and valuable. On the basis of five pedagogical principles, this paper makes the case for integrating multimodal texts with a focus on the practical implementation in the classroom so that learners gain an insight into how to read a multimodal text and are potentially motivated to choose this text format during out-of-school FVR.
