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.