Research 4 MULTIMODALITY AND METACOGNITIVE INSTRUCTION IN DEVELOPING TWO READING STRATEGIES by Sen & Towndrow.
learners who move across two or more modes have opportunities to invent connections between them, which can lead to richer and deeper understandings.
As the elements in a multimodal text come together, it is possible to create meanings that could not have been expressed in a mono-modal text alone;
different modes-such as images, gestures, written language, and spoken language-each play a unique role in how they help the reader make meaning.
(Gee and Hayes, 2011) state that multimodality is not new. They go on to
Explain, “People of all cultures have always used a range of ways to represent ideas and communicate meaning through speech, writing, image, gesture and movement, music and sound.”
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