How language shapes learning: New framework explains knowledge construction
A new analysis of Michael Halliday's social semiotic theory reveals how language and other communication modes work together to build understanding. For educators and training designers, the framework offers practical guidance on optimizing how information is presented across multiple channels—a critical consideration as organizations shift to blended and online learning.
Originaltitel: Introduction to Chapter 9: Halliday and Discursive Knowledge Construction in Multimodality
<p>Michael Halliday’s social semiotic theory is an important part of the theoretical background of O’Halloran’s contribution to this volume. In this introduction to O’Halloran’s chapter, Jensen, therefore, introduces the key ideas and concepts of Halliday’s theories, focusing especially on the concepts of ‘semiotic resource’, the idea of semiotic choice, and the relationship between language and reality, and how these concepts and ideas are important to O’Halloran’s text.</p>