To understand science, students need to learn a large interconnected set of uncommon-
sense meanings. But despite decades of research, the precise nature of these meanings …

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new
understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy …

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary
literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school …

Science is significant. Faced with the climate emergency, global pandemics and proliferating
threats to life on Earth, that significance should go without saying. However, science is under …

Background Different school subjects have their specific meaning-making practices for
building and conveying knowledge. Research drawing on the Semantics dimension of the …

This article presents a data-driven analysis of multimodal genre in a corpus of primary
school science diagrams that contains multiple layers of cross-referenced annotations for …

This introductory chapter briefly outlines the factors that motivate this book to provide a
catalyst for advancing transdisciplinary research in the use of animation in science …

Animation is widely acknowledged for dynamically visualizing information and has been
increasingly used in educational context. However, the growing presence of educational …

Desde hace tiempo, la complejidad del discurso científico ha sido identificada como
desafiante para muchos estudiantes. Los análisis de la lingüística sistémico funcional sobre …

Visual representations serve a multitude of crucial functions in the creation and
dissemination of knowledge and information. They may take many different forms and refer …