Thuy Tran

Vietnam National University, Hanoi | VNU · Faculty of English Language Teacher Education

This article presents findings of a secondary research which approaches appreciation value in online travel writings from a multimodal perspective. First, a brief summary of the Grammar of Visual Design (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006) is presented, with specific attention drawn to interactive meanings and their meaning-making resources. Then, an explan...

This workshop is designed based on the premise of differentiated instructions, which responds to the fact that contemporary classrooms should accept and build on the basis that learners are all essentially different (Brighton, 2002; Fischer and Rose, 2001; Griggs, 1991; Guild, 2001; Tomlinson, 2002). It provides practical instructions for teachers...

Abstract This paper looks into the possibility of incorporating multimodal practices in initial language teacher training at a university in Vietnam. It starts with a careful review of the concepts of multimodality as well as merits and challenges of applying a multimodal approach to language teaching. Then comes the description of the author’s mul...

This case study presents a courageous attempt of the researcher to investigate into tourism discourse, particularly travel blog posts, from a multimodal approach. Analysis of four blog posts by British travelers who toured Hanoi seeks to find out: (1) What aspects of Hanoi were described by the British travellers; (2) In what ways texts and images...

Authors: Gunther Kress & Theo van Leeuwen Routledge, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0415319157 This review critiques Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s book entitled Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design and seeks to confirm the novelty value that the book has to offer researchers in studying visual designs. Introduced in 1996 and revised in 2006, th...