Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion
Join this event to hear Arlene Archer investigate ways of using a range of modes and embodied approaches to develop writing with multilingual and diverse students.
Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion
23 May 2024, 16:00 – 17:00
Watch the recording
Normative academic writing often assumes a neutral, disembodied writer who is focused on product rather than process. Anchored in understandings of learning and writing as multimodal and embodied, this talk explores writing centre practices for access and inclusion in higher education.
Arlene will look at how embodied practice manifests in different forms of engagement and representational modes in a writing centre context. Here, the materiality and visual nature of writing needs to be considered alongside its cognitive dimensions. Focusing on the messy process of writing is advocated and ways of utilising the embodied modes of talk, laughter and silence in teaching writing are investigated.
This online event will be particularly useful for those interested in academic literacies, writing development, academic writing support, EAP, inclusion in education, and multimodality.
Related links
Professor Arlene Archer
Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director
the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Her research employs a multimodal social semiotic perspective to interrogate issues around social justice, academic writing and academic literacies in higher education.
Hayley Gewer (Chair)
Lecturer
the UCL Academic Communication Centre
She designs and delivers academic literacies and urban studies programmes, drawing on inclusive and multimodal pedagogies so as to create more just learning environments, widen participation and support students’ development of agency and belonging in higher education.
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes