Habilidades Integradas III

Professor Reinildes
Teaching Multimodality
Emanuelle do Nascimento dos Santos de Freitas - Letras, UFMG

The discussion about multiple intelligences, by Howard Gardner, has done the
multimodality primordial to teachers. The multiple literacy, that students use, steers
teachers to use a multimodal approach, because students need to differentiate the
content of learning by their own style and interests. Moreover, the proliferation of new
technologies forested new literacies, then this multiple modal texts provides to students
the possibility of use and creating texts, using the new media, improving linguistics,
video and audio modals.
The Linguistic intelligence is measured by the level of ability to understand
spoken and written language, as well as the competence of writing and speaking. Verbal
ability works through discussions strategies about a text, or a specific content, and the
learning process. It provides to students an incorporating process of new information
into a prior knowledge about the role lining. Exploring this ability can arrange a
deepening for students because it could enable the development of a new skill. Although
the didactics concepts, some time ago, had a standard, a new agency has come to set the
new media in the education. It can be observed on new books, they could have pictures,
or not, and being for mature people. Furthermore, the ability of contextualize this
multiple modals is very important to new generation, because the hi-tech era requires
this link between words and medias.
At the same time the linguistic intelligence is working, the visual is too. The
visual ability is related with the spatial judgment, people who "could see with mind's
eye" can see through some angles and find some details and solve navigation problems.
This quality could provide an overview to students during a contextualizing process.
Mainly in this new age, with games as learning platform through internet. They use a
broadcast system that the content is not only in the dialogs between the characters, but
also in the whole structure of the game. Colors, graphics, how the cameras move and
focus during the match, are planned for to make the player submerge on a new universe

that is full of information. An example that can clearly shows this is the differences
between some kinds of games. If it is about war, the color pallet has darker tones, better
graphics for guns, bombs, and maps, cameras that moves with the character that is in
use.
Likewise, the audio is a tool for the learning process. It is just important as
linguistic and visual intelligence. This ability provides to a person the possibility to
perceive and reproduce differences in aspects of music including pitch, rhythm and
harmony. People who can perceive these differences are more attracted for the audio
aspect. Then, on internet is easy to see many advertisements using music that could
involve the consumer and urge them to buy the product. An example that could
represent it is the advertisement of the new Uno, they use a song from a famous singer,
and the music talks about happiness. When the costumers see it, soon they make a link
between feel happy and buy this car. However, this resource is not only common at
marketing, also on blogs and games.
Therefore, teaching multimodality turns into a very important thing nowadays.
The biggest fact that influences this necessity is the new technologies, a new setting of
modern life make possible the interaction of multiple modals. It makes possible to use
of some intelligences on learning process, where students can also develop other ones.
Thus, the coming of the multiple intelligences concept is directly connected to
multimodality, and this hi-tech generation can work with infinite possibilities on
learning process developing new abilities.

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