In the move from page to screen a range of representational modes
(including image, movement, gesture, and voice) are available as meaningmaking
resources. This article focuses on the reshaping of the entity
?character? in the transformation of the novel Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck,
1937) to CD-ROM (1996). Through detailed analysis the article demonstrates
that the shift from written page to multimodal screen entails a shift in the
construction of the entity ?character?. It is also suggested that students?
interaction with the resources of the CD-ROM as a visual text demand that
?reading? and the process of learning within school English be thought of as
more than a linguistic accomplishment. |