Title: The Line Between: Virtual Re-Tellers Exposing to Two Modes of Visual Literacy Safa AlOthali, Maha Al Habbash, Najah Al Mohammedi, Negmeldin Alsheikh
UAEU
Abstract
This case study aimed at understanding how the enactment of actual two modes of visual literacy (TV Mode vs. Virtual Realty) contributes to our understanding of story re-tellers^ ways of representation, elaboration and gist recalling. Six fourth grade students were exposed to two types of visual representations. First, they exposed to a silent story through ordinary TV representation and later they exposed to the same story using Virtual Reality. The study fathomed the differences between the two modes of representation in term of volume and reaction of the same students using the same content. To gauge the volume of retelling, the occurrences of representation, gist recalling, and elaboration were tabulated during the observation. While the students^ reaction by retelling was analyzed through using their natural expressions and responses to the silent story. The use of other different multimodalities such as videos, audios, visual reading materials contributed to consolidate the results. Additionally, a casual interview was conducted with the six participants. The study results revealed that the VR use is significantly higher than the TV in term of the volume of retelling (representations, elaboration and gist recalling). In term of their reaction by retelling, the participants were more excited, engaged, and reactive when using the VR, which is reflected when they were interviewed. The results from this study could contribute to our knowledge base, pedagogical base, and research of using virtual reality shows as vibrant tools in transforming literacy.
Keywords: Virtual Reality, TV Mode, Visual Literacy, Multimodalities, Stories Retelling
