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Title: Illustrating a method for analyzing multimodal artifacts used in transactions of practice.
We illustrate how concepts from systemic functional linguistics are adapted for the analysis of multimodal representations of practice used in activities where teachers and teacher educators transact meanings about practice. We focus on the transactive register used to project practice meanings to the audience of these representations. We showcase the systems called visibility (how much of the classroom experience happening is made visible to the viewer), temporality (how sequence and duration of events are represented), and theme (how semiotic resources maintain and develop themes). We apply these systems to examine the differences between two storyboards of algebra lessons that were used in a professional development context and the different kinds of reactions teachers offered to the different storyboards.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2201087
PAR ID:
10530550
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ;
Editor(s):
Evans, T; Marmur, O; Hunter, J; Leach, G; Jhagroo; J
Publisher / Repository:
Proceedings of the 47th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the PME Conference
Volume:
3
ISSN:
0771-100X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
25 - 32
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Auckland, New Zealand
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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