(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences

Steph Ceraso

doi:10.58680/ce201426145

College English Nov 2014

(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences

Steph Ceraso

Abstract

This essay reimagines the way that listening is taught in the multimodal composition classroom. In contrast to listening to sonic content for meaning, the listening pedagogy I introduce is based on my concept of multimodal listening—a practice that involves attending to the sensory, material, and contextual aspects that comprise and shape a sonic event. I argue that cultivating multimodal listening practices will enable students to become more savvy consumers and producers of sound in the composition classroom and in their everyday lives.

Journal: College English
Published: 2014-11-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201426145
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Topics: writing pedagogy multimodality
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