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Curiouser and Curiouser : How To Use Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Multimodal Teaching

Working with different media in language teaching is increasingly popular. Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland originally used two different media: text and images. This essay investigates how the novel, published in 1865 with illustrations by John Tenniel, and Tim Burton’s film adaptation (2010) relate to each other, and how the different media in which the story is presented can be used in teaching. The main objective is to see what parts were illustrated in the original novel, and how those illustrations and Tim Burton’s film adaptation (Alice in Wonderland 2010) are related. The essay also looks at how the results from this analysis can be used in teaching multimodal literacy – that is the ability to understand the meaning created through different media. The analysis shows that Tenniel’s illustrations mainly depict Alice and the meetings she has during her adventures, that his illustrations were more often than not taken into consideration in the film adaptation and that the film differs from the original story. The latter makes the juxtaposition of the illustrations and the novel even more suitable for using in multimodal teaching English in the upper education.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-46260
Date January 2022
CreatorsLjungqvist, Nicolina
PublisherHögskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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