Asst Prof Victor Lim Fei Delves into Research on Multimodality

Asst Prof Victor Lim Fei from the English Language & Literature Academic Group in NIE is conducting research on multimodality in education with his project “Integrating Multiliteracies into the English Language Classroom: Developing an Instructional Approach to Teach Multimodal Literacy (Critical Viewing and Effective Representing of Multimodal Texts)”. Research findings from this project have informed two invited seminars, a book review, and a journal article. Additionally, Asst Prof Lim is building on his research into multimodality as a co-founding editor on a new research journal.

On 7 February 2021, Asst Prof Lim was invited to present at the ThinkLit Series by the National Library Board (Singapore) on how to read digital texts, and on 15 March 2021, he gave an invited seminar at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University titled “’Leave my world alone’ – What students want in learning multimodal literacy”.

With co-author Dr Phillip Towndrow, Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, Asst Prof Lim has written and published an article on “Unpacking teachers’ multimodal pedagogies in the Singapore primary English language classroom” in the RELC Journal.

Asst Prof Lim has also reviewed the books Making sense: Reference, agency and structure in a grammar of multimodal meaning and Adding sense: Context and interest in a grammar of multimodal meaning, by M. Kalantzis & B. Cope. This review was published in the journal Multimodality & Society, of which Asst Prof Lim is a founding editor, and can be accessed here. This new journal was launched on 31 March 2021 and seeks to consolidate and advance multimodal research theory and methodologies. Prof Carey Jewitt, University College London, Prof Elisabetta Adami, University of Leeds, Prof Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town, and Prof Anders Bjorkvall, Orebro University, are the other founding editors of the journal.