Affordances of External Representations in Instructional Design: The Effect of Narrative and Imagery in Learning.
Description:
Consisting of both theoretical and empirical inquires, this study examines the primary functions of narrative and the relationship between narrative and mental imagery. The study proposes a new framework to interpret semiotic resources. Combining this with the linguistic functional theory of Halliday (1978), a functional method to empirically investigate semiotic representations was also developed. In the empirical inquiry, the study developed a latent construct method to empirically test the …
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Date:
December 2008
Creator:
Wu, Yan