Webinars

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.