What happens when multimodality comes into the classroom? : A study of Swedish children’s use of multiple modes while creating narrative text

The aim of this study is to analyse and describe the impact of digital devices with a multimodal character on children's creations of narrative texts. The focus will be on the process of creating texts, the conditions for creating texts and the results, the texts. Text is seen as multimodal and the theoretical approach is social semiotics. The method will involve a multimodal didactic design approach. Data sources will include observations, interviews, and text analysis. The analyses will comprise content analysis, writing discourse analysis and multimodal text analysis. The study is still in progress so some expected outcomes are presented in the text. This ebook came out of the 1st Training School (TS) of the COST Action IS1410 - The Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children (DigiLitEY), which was held at the Institute of Education of University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in June, 6th-8th 2016