Research group Literacy and Multimodality – LiM

The group centers around research on literacy practices, meaning making, and classroom interaction in different subjects. Our main intereset concerns research grounded in a multimodal perspective, namely research focusing on the use of different modes, such as speech, writing, image, gestures and action. We also include the use of different languages in the multimodal perspective.

We are particularly interested in teachers’ designs for learning, students’ designs in learning, and assessment of students’ representations of their knowledge expressed through different modes. A central perspective is what opportunities for meaning making students are given through the teachers’ design and through the design of learning resources used. An underlying purpose is to find ways of designing classrooms practices that can contribute to equal possibilities for students’ possibilities to make meaning and to show their knowledge in different ways. The group welcomes cross-disciplinary encounters.

In our meetings, we discuss research within the group’s area of interest, both empirical results and theoretical or methodological issues. An important aspect of our work is to discuss the participants’ texts and project ideas.

All interested are welcome to participate in the meetings we invite to.