Abstract
As a need of global cultural diversity and multimodal communication in Big Data era, the cultivation of college students’ English multi-literacies becomes an indispensable new trend of English teaching at college in China. This paper firstly introduces the basic concept of multi-literacy briefly. Then, it analyzes the statistics of the questionnaire about college students’ multi-literacies in Hebei Province. Based on the status quo and demands of students’ English multi-literacies, this paper makes some suggestions on how to improve students’ English multi-literacies. Hopefully, this paper may have some enlightment for English multi-literacy teaching and learning.
Highlights
UNESCO defines literacy as: “The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” (UNESCO, 2004: p. 13)
In the survey of language modalities, 71.36% of students know that language is a form of information presentation, usually in both spoken and written form
Based on the previous survey results, it can be found that Hebei college students are still unaware of the concept of “modal” and “multimodal” and “multi-literacies”, most students have accepted the various modes such as words, video, audio, gestures and space which are the main presenting forms of multi-literacies
Summary
UNESCO defines literacy as: “The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” (UNESCO, 2004: p. 13). UNESCO defines literacy as: “The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” Nowadays the form and connotation of literacy have changed. Besides traditional text forms, the ways of spreading information have multiplied. College English classes are affected by new media. The traditional teaching method focused on reading and writing can employ more diversified approaches. Multimodal learning is able to be accomplished through multiple channels such as space, images, animation, networks, etc. What’s more, college students, as digital natives, are more open to the multimodality in forms of vision, hearing, touch, etc. The cultural diversity and world unity re-
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