Dialogic text: Experiencing interactive meaning making through multimodality in Pakistani EFL classroom

Publication date: Available online 21 June 2017 Source:Lingua Author(s): Mudassar Mahmood Ahmad, Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig The present study attempts to understand how Pakistani EFL learners, relatively less exposed to the experience of hyperlinked digital text, interact with the multimodal texts, in which the primary text, vocabulary, visuals, images and verbal texts are interlinked in a way that seems to make the experience of reading flexible, innovative and engaging for a learner. The study undertakes that multimodal text is dialogic in nature and it delegates more autonomy to the reader who can chart his/her own pattern of comprehension by switching from linear monomodal text reading to the vocabulary of difficult words and the related images, visuals and native speakers' model of...

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