Webinars

PAST EDITIONS

During the past editions we have had a series of plenary lectures in which we have discussed about some of the latest developments within the field of multimodality. The talks that we had in the previous editions were:

VI International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis

The 6th International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis dealt with Digital Genres and Multimodal Language Learning. It consisted of 4 lectures by well-known researchers in the field, who tackled the topic from different perspectives. In addition, Vicent Beltran-Palanques and Julia Valeiras-Jurado summarized the research carried out by the members of the Group for Research on Academic and Professional English (GRAPE) related to this topic. As a novelty, 3 doctoral students were invited to present research pitches on multimodality and its application to English language teaching and learning.

This webinar had the following plenary lectures:
  • Bill Cope (University of Illinois, USA): A multimodal grammar of generative AI: Implications for language learning.
  • Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds, UK): Translocal trajectories and strategies of social media video content creators: An integrated time-space-interaction analysis.
  • Jarret Geenen (Radbound Universiteit, Netherlands): Genre in a changing technological ecology: a mediated way forward.
  • Pilar Mur Dueñas (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): From the analysis of multimodal digital genres to the development of English learners’ multiliteracies.
  • Vicent Beltrán Palanques & Julia Valeiras Jurado (Universitat Jaume I, Spain): Multimodality and pedagogical implications: Research by GRAPE

V International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis 

The 5th International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis dealt with 3 main topics: Multimodality, the evolution of the concept, and new directions; new tools and new contexts in multimodal digital communication: corpus-driven research; and pedagogical applications and future research on multimodality. Similarly to previous editions, this webinar was structured in 2 phases. The first phase consisted of a forum in the days prior to the webinar. Then, during the two days of the webinar, there were 6 short lectures, 3 Round Tables, and a workshop on the software we have developed for multimodal analysis (GRAPE-MARS). Participants were also invited to participate in the forum, and then, asked questions after each of the lectures and the Round Tables.

This Webinar had the following plenary lectures:
  • Sophia Diamantopoulou (UCL Institute of Education, UK): A Multimodal Interdisciplinary Engagement with Kress’s Social Semiotic Concept of Agency
  • Natasha Artemeva (Carleton University, Canada): Multimodality Studies inInternational Contexts Contemporary: Trends and Challenges
  • Rebekah Wegener (Universität Salzburg, Austria): Applied Multimodality: Multimodality for Technology & Technology for Multimodality
  • Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez & Noelia Ruiz Madrid (Universitat Jaume I, Spain): Group for Research on Academic and Professional English Analysing Multimodality with New Tools and New Perspectives
  • Christoph A. Hafner (City University of Hong Kong, China): Digital Multimodal Composing: Rationale, Challenges and Design
  • Fei Victor Lim (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Multimodality and Learning: Desiderata for Future Research

IV International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis (on-line)

In this fourth edition, the following plenary lectures will discuss some of the latest research developments in multimodality.

  • Fei Victor Lim (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Multimodal Research to Inform Policy and Practice in Education.
  • Balbina Moncada-Comas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain): Feedback provision to construct students’ academic genres: combining a variety of multimodal pedagogic ensembles in ESP.
  • Elena Martín-Monje (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – UNED, Spain): Exploring open technologies and automated feedback to improve English writing skills.

Our webinars comprise two main activities: online live plenary lectures and related forum discussion based on a series of proposed readings. In this edition, we will have four invited speakers (plenary lectures) and two forums. Forum interaction is prior to the plenary lectures as a kind of “warming-up” discussion.
In this edition, forum A (“Applying multimodal analysis”) and forum B (“Theories and methodologies”) consist of a series of online readings that serve as a starting point and trigger pre- and also post-lecture fruitful discussion on the part of both participants and invited speakers. Each forum is moderated by two GRAPE members who try to guide the comments. Participants are expected to contribute to the discussion with at least a comment in each of the forums. At the end of every plenary session, participants will receive an e-mail with a summary of the posts in the forums.

III International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis: ICLHE and Multimodal Literacy

This is the third edition of a series of webinars the Grape Group (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English) at Universitat Jaume I has been organising since 2016.
Our webinars comprise two main activities: online live plenary lectures and related forum discussion based on a series of proposed readings. In this edition, we will have four invited speakers (plenary lectures) and two forums. Forum interaction is prior to the plenary lectures as a kind of “warming-up” discussion.
In this edition, forum A (“Applying multimodal analysis”) and forum B (“Theories and methodologies”) consist of a series of online readings that serve as a starting point and trigger pre- and also post-lecture fruitful discussion on the part of both participants and invited speakers. Each forum is moderated by two GRAPE members who try to guide the comments. Participants are expected to contribute to the discussion with at least a comment in each of the forums. At the end of every plenary session, participants will receive an e-mail with a summary of the posts in the forums.

II Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis

  • Jesse Pirini (Auckland University of Technology, Nueva Zelanda): Multimodal (inter)action analysis: Introduction, application, and developments.
  • Julia Valeiras (Ghent University, Belgica): Studying oral presentations from a Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) approach: Methodological reflections.
  • Teresa Morell (Universitat d’Alacant, España): Pedagogical implications of multimodal research for communicating in academic contexts.
  • Gunther Kress (University College of London, Reino Unido): Design and semiotic work: methodological questions in multimodal (discourse analysis) research. Y también: Making the intangible tangible: future of research on multimodality.
  • Christine Räisänen (Chalmers University, Suecia): Human and non-human bodies, time and place: A critical lens on multimodality.
  • Mª José Luzón (Universidad de Zaragoza, España): Multimodality in academic digital genres.

I Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis

  • Kay O’Halloran (Curtin University, Australia): State of the Art and the Future of Multimodal Research
  • Myrrh Domingo (Institute of Education, University of London, Reino Unido): Generating, Managing and Analyzing Multimodal Data in Online Platforms: The Case of Blogs, Discussion Forums and Social Media Platforms
  • Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology, Nueva Zelanda): Relevance of Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis to Linguistics.
  • Geert Jacobs (University of Ghent, Bélgica): Actions speak louder than words: crisis communication from the Exxon Valdez oil spill to Volkswagen diesel engines.
  • Julia Valeiras (University of Ghent, Bélgica): Persuasion in oral presentations: a multimodal genre to be disclosed.
  • Geert Jacobs (University of Ghent, Bélgica): Intermodal perspectives on news production: talk and text in on-line press conferences.