MULTILITERACY APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA AND THE APPLICABILITY OF COMICS AS POLYCODED TEXTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY Cover Image

МУЛТИЛИТЕРАТУРНИОТ ПРИСТАП ВО ОБРАЗОВНИТЕ КУРИКУЛУМИ И ПРИМЕНЛИВОСТА НА СТРИПОТ КАКО ПОЛИКОДЕН ТЕКСТ ВО РАЗВОЈОТ НА РАЗЛИЧНИТЕ НИВОА НА ФУНКЦИОНАЛНАТА ПИСМЕНОСТ
MULTILITERACY APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA AND THE APPLICABILITY OF COMICS AS POLYCODED TEXTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY

Author(s): Gabriela Ivanovska
Subject(s): Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: polycoded and multimodal text; multiliterary pedagogical practices; functional language literacy; comics

Summary/Abstract: An intensely digitalized world and the new forms of text-mediated communication, which increasingly include texts in which information is transmitted through various coding systems / modes (verbal, visual, auditory, tactile, etc.), suggest that literacy should be considered as a plural phenomenon (i.e. multiliterary and multimodal), and text as a polycoded and multimodal product. In this paper we are not interested in considering all the different approaches to defining texts, rather we will approach the text primarily from a semiotic-cultural aspect, i.e. culture as text and text as a heterogeneous complex multimodal phenomenon which "embodies" reality with the help of different sign systems. The focus of our interest will be on multiliteracy approaches in the creation and reading of texts, as well as new pedagogical practices and educational curricula that would develop functional literacy, the recognition of different semiotic systems and would also encourage individual critical thinking from an early age. To this end, we first look at the different terminology used when talking about multiliteracy and point out the similarities, differences and the need for a distinction between multiliteracy, multimodality and polycodedness in the processes of reception of texts and of their interpretation. In conclusion, we devote our attention to comics as polycoded texts, which, we believe, are undeservedly underestimated in the context of educational curricula and literary criticism, as well as analyze comics as excellent means for the adoption of multiliteracy and the development of different levels of functional literacy in young people.

  • Issue Year: 20/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 66-82
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Macedonian
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