主讲人：Prof. Leonard Charles Unsworth（Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic Education）

时间：2014年6月16日（周一）下午15:30-17:30

地点：北校区第九教学楼103（MBA丝纺讲堂）

主办单位：人事处、国际合作与交流处、教师发展中心

承办单位：英语教育学院

讲座语言：英语

讲座内容简介：

Interpreting the image–language interface in multimodal texts is now an integral aspect of reading paper and digital media texts in almost all areas of communication in today’smultimedia world. This is reflected in international literacy tests such as PISA and IELTS. It is also well recognized as a crucial aspect of reading comprehension in a number of official school syllabi such as the recently published Australian Curriculum: English (ACE). This presentation outlines the relevant expected student learning outcomes in this curriculum and draws attention to the need for further research to provide a robust and comprehensive account of the nature of image–language relations to explicate these intended outcomes in a manner that will support multimodal literacy pedagogy. Recent semiotic accounts of image–language interaction are outlined and related to the results of a study showing the relative comprehension difficulty of different kinds of image–language relations. Also discussed in relation to this study is the extent to which the current Australian national assessment program in reading addresses the image–language interface and the nature of the image–language relations included in this assessment program. This research suggests that the current discrepant emphases on the image–language interface in the ACE and the national assessment program could be brought much more into alignment to generate an assessment program that more adequately addresses reading as the integrative negotiation of visual and verbal information. In teaching English as a foreign language, developing reading comprehension must also be seen as the integrative negotiation of image and language, requiring new multimodal reading pedagogies and the further refinement of tests such as PISA and IELTS to take full account of the multimodal nature of an increasing variety of texts that are encountered in educational, vocational, civic, social, and personal contexts.

主讲人简介：

Leonard Charles Unsworth是多元识读研究的领军人物之一，目前为澳大利亚天主教大学教授。Unsworth教授出版专著及学术著作十多本，其中Teaching Multiliteracies across the Curriculum已成为多元识读研究的必读书目；在Language & Education, Visual Communication, Curriculum Perspectives, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Reading等国际期刊发表期刊论文近五十篇，并在Routledge, Springer, Peter Lang, Continuum等著名出版社发表书章论文近三十篇。2004年获澳大利亚识读教育者协会（Australian Literacy Educators’ Association） 颁发的“研究引用价值奖”（Citation of Merit Award for Research）；2006年获澳大利亚教育科学和培训部长（Australia Government Minister for Education, Science and Training）颁发的“提升识读突出贡献奖”(Outstanding Contribution to Improving Literacy).

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人事处、国际合作与交流处、教师发展中心

2014年6月10日