Multimodality in Higher Education

Multimodality in Higher Education showcases new directions in multimodal research and also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy. It theorizes writing practices and writing pedagogy in Higher Educational contexts from a multimodal perspective.

About the author

Arlene Archer, Ph.D. is the co-ordinator of the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town. Her research employs a multimodal perspective to re-look at key concerns of an 'academic literacies' approach to teaching and research in Higher Education.

Esther Odilia Breuer, Ph.D., Cologne University, is Head of the Centre for Writing Competency at that university. Her main research interests lie in writing and the cognitive processes underlying (Foreign Language) writing.

Contributors are: Arlene Archer, Esther Odilia Breuer, Anders Björkvall, Lucia Thesen, Tuomo Hiippala, Lesley Gourlay, Simon Bell, Bronwyn T. Williams, Aditi Hunma, Leo Roehrich, Hesham Alyousef, Peter Mickan, Zach Simpson

Product details

• Assisted by: Arlene Archer (Editor), Esther Breuer (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9789004312050
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31205-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Studies in Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology