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Friday, 17 July 2020

Multimodality and metacognitive instruction

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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