Len Unsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 4485649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Len Unsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Len |
| FAMILY NAME | Unsworth |
| SIGNATURE | UNSWORTH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4723-8169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Playing to Learn: Exploring Interactivity for Knowledge Building in School Science Animations
Model-building and multimodal discourse in tertiary physics: A Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective on lab report writing
Enhancing EAP students’ repertoires of evaluative language expressions through an innovative teaching sequence with redesigned course materials
Differentiating Appreciation of Characterization in Print, Graphic Novel, and Movie Versions of Children’s Literature: Multimodal Analyses to Develop Students’ Interpretive Stance
Language arts and literacy curricula around the world have been advocating for the teaching and learning of literature in multiple forms. However, apparently in much of classroom practice, little attention has been given to distinguishing the literary distinctiveness of multiple forms of ostensibly the same story. Developing an appreciation of the distinctive interpretive possibilities of multi-version literary narratives may be facilitated by se…
Multimodal composing in the English classroom: Recontextualising the curriculum to learning
As literacy curricula around the world expand to include multimodal meaning-making, the challenge that remains is how teachers can design engaging and effective learning experiences in this context and the nature of their guidance to students in developing their multimodal literacy. Our paper focuses on the topic of multimodal composing, where students create artefacts to learn and demonstrate their learning. We seek to understand how teachers ca…
Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text
English language teaching of attitude and emotion in digital multimodal composition
Multimodal Language of Attitude in Digital Composition
Communication using popular digital media involves understanding multimodal systems of appraisal for expressing attitude, which traditionally deals with emotions, ethics, and aesthetics in language. The formulation and teaching of multimodal grammars for attitudinal meanings in popular texts and culture is currently underresearched. This article reports findings from multisite qualitative research that developed students’ ability to use semiotic …
IP ad Animations: Powerful Multimodal Practices for Adolescent Literacy and Emotional Language
In an age of mobile technologies, digital animation creation can be an important tool for teaching adolescents how to communicate emotions multimodally. This article draws on appraisal theory and original research to illustrate the power of digital animation for multimodal literacy learning. Students from a culturally diverse cohort were taught how to interpret emotions in animated films and produced 2‐D cartoon animations using drawings with an …
Reworking the appraisal framework in ESL research: Refining attitude resources
The Appraisal framework within Systemic Functional Linguistics as a robust tool in language teaching and research has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. Since its establishment as the most complete account, the framework has been used in a variety of contexts, resulting in a number of refinements, tuning its applicability for specific research purposes such as studies of the evaluative language in research article abstracts, biol…
Persuasive narratives: Evaluative images in picture books and animated movies
English curricula are now requiring students in the middle years of schooling to explain how images influence the opinions communicated in multimodal paper and digital media texts. While such curricula address some aspects of visual semiosis, these do not include how images communicate ethical positions and judgements about propriety. This article explores the ways in which ethical and moral judgements are communicated in images in a selection of…
E-literature for Children: Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning
Children's literature can bridge the inter-generational digital divide in theEnglish classroom. The digital multimedia world of the world wide web(www) and CD-ROM technology is enhancing and expanding the story worldsof literary narratives accessed primarily through the reading of books, aswell as generating exciting new forms of digital narrative such as hyperfictionand electronic game narratives. Some established authors of children'sliterature…
E-literature for Children: Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning
As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practical ideas for work schemes for children at all levels. Len Unsworth draws together functional analyses of language and images and applies them to real-life classroom learning environments, developing pupils’ understanding of ‘text’. The main themes include: What kinds of literary narratives can be acce…
Persuasive narratives: Evaluative images in picture books and animated movies
English curricula are now requiring students in the middle years of schooling to explain how images influence the opinions communicated in multimodal paper and digital media texts. While such curricula address some aspects of visual semiosis, these do not include how images communicate ethical positions and judgements about propriety. This article explores the ways in which ethical and moral judgements are communicated in images in a selection of…
E-literature for Children: Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning
Children's literature can bridge the inter-generational digital divide in theEnglish classroom. The digital multimedia world of the world wide web(www) and CD-ROM technology is enhancing and expanding the story worldsof literary narratives accessed primarily through the reading of books, aswell as generating exciting new forms of digital narrative such as hyperfictionand electronic game narratives. Some established authors of children'sliterature…
E-literature for Children: Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning
As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practical ideas for work schemes for children at all levels. Len Unsworth draws together functional analyses of language and images and applies them to real-life classroom learning environments, developing pupils’ understanding of ‘text’. The main themes include: What kinds of literary narratives can be acce…
Reworking the appraisal framework in ESL research: Refining attitude resources
The Appraisal framework within Systemic Functional Linguistics as a robust tool in language teaching and research has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. Since its establishment as the most complete account, the framework has been used in a variety of contexts, resulting in a number of refinements, tuning its applicability for specific research purposes such as studies of the evaluative language in research article abstracts, biol…
Persuasive narratives: Evaluative images in picture books and animated movies
English curricula are now requiring students in the middle years of schooling to explain how images influence the opinions communicated in multimodal paper and digital media texts. While such curricula address some aspects of visual semiosis, these do not include how images communicate ethical positions and judgements about propriety. This article explores the ways in which ethical and moral judgements are communicated in images in a selection of…
IP ad Animations: Powerful Multimodal Practices for Adolescent Literacy and Emotional Language
In an age of mobile technologies, digital animation creation can be an important tool for teaching adolescents how to communicate emotions multimodally. This article draws on appraisal theory and original research to illustrate the power of digital animation for multimodal literacy learning. Students from a culturally diverse cohort were taught how to interpret emotions in animated films and produced 2‐D cartoon animations using drawings with an …
English language teaching of attitude and emotion in digital multimodal composition
Multimodal Language of Attitude in Digital Composition
Communication using popular digital media involves understanding multimodal systems of appraisal for expressing attitude, which traditionally deals with emotions, ethics, and aesthetics in language. The formulation and teaching of multimodal grammars for attitudinal meanings in popular texts and culture is currently underresearched. This article reports findings from multisite qualitative research that developed students’ ability to use semiotic …
Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text
Multimodal composing in the English classroom: Recontextualising the curriculum to learning
As literacy curricula around the world expand to include multimodal meaning-making, the challenge that remains is how teachers can design engaging and effective learning experiences in this context and the nature of their guidance to students in developing their multimodal literacy. Our paper focuses on the topic of multimodal composing, where students create artefacts to learn and demonstrate their learning. We seek to understand how teachers ca…
Differentiating Appreciation of Characterization in Print, Graphic Novel, and Movie Versions of Children’s Literature: Multimodal Analyses to Develop Students’ Interpretive Stance
Language arts and literacy curricula around the world have been advocating for the teaching and learning of literature in multiple forms. However, apparently in much of classroom practice, little attention has been given to distinguishing the literary distinctiveness of multiple forms of ostensibly the same story. Developing an appreciation of the distinctive interpretive possibilities of multi-version literary narratives may be facilitated by se…
Playing to Learn: Exploring Interactivity for Knowledge Building in School Science Animations
Model-building and multimodal discourse in tertiary physics: A Systemic Functional Linguistics perspective on lab report writing
Enhancing EAP students’ repertoires of evaluative language expressions through an innovative teaching sequence with redesigned course materials
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Multimodality (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)