The Cultivation of Multiliteracies in the Context of Multimedia Instruction

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As the digital, network and multimedia technology has been penetrating gradually and applied widely into the education, increasing number of courses have introduced computer-based multimedia equipment to supplement the teaching process, which poses a huge challenge for the students as they need to be able to obtain, interpret, sift and recreate multimodal information in hypertexts. That means the cultivation of multiliteracies is in urgent need. Therefore, the multimodal teaching mode is proposed in this paper, together with the feasible ways to apply it in daily teaching practice by analyzing and discussing the concept and pedagogy of multilieracies.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 945-949)

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3566-3569

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June 2014

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