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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

"Remix Culture & English Language Teaching" - Christoph Hafner


Hafner, Christoph A. "Remix Culture and English Language Teaching: The Expression of Learner Voice in Digital Multimodal Compositions." TESOL Quarterly 49.3 (486-509). 15 Sep 2015. Web. 2 Aug 2016.

Like Gries, Hafner identifies remix culture (and remix as a legitimate literacy strategy) as significant to multimodal composition and identifies four main remix processes that are part of multimodal composition: chunking, layering, blending, and intercultural blending.  He uses the example of a scientific video project in Hong Kong to investigate the impact of remixing on voice in multimodal composition.  His theoretical model is provided below:

 Crucially, Hafner also identifies "voice" according to Bakhtin as multiple, but as a coherent or cohesive persona that may be sensed behind a text that may exist only for that specific text, which averts the problems with cultural conception/metaphor of voice that Ramanathan and Atkinson raised in the Second Language Writing book.  The contribution he sees in this theoretical model is helping students gain awareness of the range of resources available to them.  The benefits of multimodal composition is a wider range of subject positions (and typified voices) while the risks involve lack of coherence.
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