This video is about using memes and multimodal texts in teaching English language learners. The speakers discuss the challenges learners face and how memes can be a tool to address them.
🔹 Here are the key points:
- Memes can be a way for students to interact with and critically view multimodal texts, which are texts that combine multiple modes of communication, such as written text, images, and audio.
- Students can analyze memes and create their own, which can help them develop critical thinking and digital literacy skills.
- It is important to be aware of the cultural context of memes, as some memes may not be understood by learners from all backgrounds.
- The speakers discuss three memes in detail. The first meme is the “Spiderman pointing at Spiderman” meme, which is used to highlight the confusion that learners can feel when they learn a new word and then find that it has multiple meanings. The second meme is the “man reaching for a yellow ball” meme, which is used to represent the challenge of learning English grammar. The third meme is the “Drakeposting” meme, which is used to show that some learners find watching English movies more enjoyable than learning English in school.
