Multimodal Transduction in Story Dramas: A Case Study in a Canadian Bimodal Bilingual Preschool

• In Event: Language Pedagogies in Deaf Education

Abstract

This case study examines how a Canadian bimodal bilingual preschool teaching team responded to training on story drama and their application of the training to a class of deaf preschool children. The data suggests, when viewed through the lens of multimodal semiotic lens (Kress, 2010) deaf axiology (Skyer, 2021), and multimodal transduction theory (Skyer, 2023) that a preschool teaching team bypassed the traditional story drama training to exploit possibilities for multimodal transduction. In doing so, they used several multimodal transductions to teach concepts to a group of students, some of whom had not been exposed consistently to a language prior to admission into the preschool.

Author

• Joanne Weber, University of Alberta