UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF LEARNING WITH DIGITAL MULTIMODAL TEXTS by Dorothy Cooshna-Naik Student Number: 213573475 A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY School of Education, College of Humanities UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL, EDGEWOOD CAMPUS, DURBAN SUPERVISORS Dr Linda van Laren Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Prof Claudia Mitchell Full Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Prof Rada Tirvassen Head Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2018, Mauritius)