Extracting the story behind the CIELL essays: Inclusive visual design of the webtoons in the CIELL mobile app

Abstract

Article typeFull paper, double-blind peer review. Special issue Visual literacies and visual technologies for teaching, learning and inclusion | More at

Visual literacies and visual technologies for teaching, learning and inclusion: Introduction to the Special Issue

“…The third theme provides detailed examples of how visuals are being used in higher education settings: to examine the role of visuals in a change laboratory intervention (Moffitt, 2022), to study visual communication of critical health information in community settings (Newman & Bustamante, 2022), to understand how medical students are using visual artefacts as a tool for reflection in their experiential learning (Bendriss, 2022) and the challenges in the visual design of an inclusive, 'dyslexia-friendly', mobile app for English language learners based on webtoons, i.e. comics designed to be read on mobile devices (Sime & Tsampra, 2022).…”

“…Finally, Sime and Tsampra (2022) focus on design for inclusion through a discussion of the visual design of a mobile app based on webtoons for learners of English as an additional language as they learn about essay planning. The innovative teaching method illustrated in the app uses multimodality to foster literacy and support the cognitive and affective needs of learners with and without dyslexia.…”