Prospective Teachers' Interactions With Interactive Diagrams: Semiotic Tools, Challenges And Well-Trodden Paths

The goal of the study was to analyze prospective teachers' interactions with interactive texts and to understand the affordance of the texts' design, which was conducted within the semiotic framework, on the different stages of the interactions. The findings of the empirical study shed light on awareness of design functions of interactive text in the teachers' interactions with the materials: they developed teaching plans and scenarios of student-textbook-teacher interaction that included similar tasks distinguished by the designed functions in different stages of the interaction and defined, for each task, different goals for teaching. However the teachers did not always take an advantage of the wide variety of options available with the interactive texts and preferred the familiar paths in teaching.