Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leaflets
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Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leafletsAuthor (s)
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2018Publisher
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0346-251XBibliographic citation
Bellés-Fortuño, B., Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approachinformative leaflets, System (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.02.012Type
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This study aims to analyse multimodality in medical leaflets to see how images and
other semiotic modes combine with text-flow, adding meaning to the message and
broadening the communicative spectrum. Traditionally, ... [+]
This study aims to analyse multimodality in medical leaflets to see how images and
other semiotic modes combine with text-flow, adding meaning to the message and
broadening the communicative spectrum. Traditionally, in the educational sphere, more
importance has been given to text rather than to other semiotic modes but, in fact,
writing is also a multimodal practice. In medicine, the visual becomes vital, whether
accompanied by meaningful written text or not. The present study analyses 50 medical
leaflets designed by first year medical students enrolled in their English for Health
Sciences module. The leaflets are a very useful activity integrated as part of their
spoken project presentations and include a variety of medical topics, i.e. diabetes,
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Alzheimer‟s or Huntington‟s disease, among others.
Images were considered in terms of type, structural organization, and size. How images
combine with text-flow was also observed. The study is an example of how we can
apply multimodality to the teaching and learning of languages in the higher education
curriculum, proving that multimodality is not only a theory, but also a field of
application. [-]
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