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Table 2 Using Alternative Modes to Test an Idea in Group 1

From: ELL’s science meaning making in multimodal inquiry: a case-study in a Hong Kong bilingual school

No

Student

Speech

Gesture / Model Manipulation

1

N

And pull fast

 

2

H

Wait! Let me hold the…

Cups hands around bottle to catch coins

3

T

Well we know what happens when you pull it fast so what are you trying?

 

4

N

 

N > model, Pulls note by accelerating quickly. The coins move slightly but stay on the bottle.

5

T

Put the note on again

Puts coins on table

6

H

Now slow, Oh god

Puts fingers in her ears

7

N

 

Pulls slowly

8

J

 

Squints and grits her teeth, and cups her hands around base

9

H

 

Fingers in ears

10

N

 

: Pulls note extremely slowly at a constant speed

11

N

  

12

13

J

Others

Ow

Coins land on her hand

Laugh

14

N

Ok so when its slow

 

15

T

(Now you can sit down)

T > N

16

N

it (COINS) moves, it moves with the note, but when its fast, the coins don’t have time to react