English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Embodied readings: Exploring the multimodal social semiotic resources of the English classroom
John Yandell (Institute of Education, University of London)
The article presents research into literacy practices in secondary English classrooms in a multicultural urban school. Using data from digital videotape, it brings a multimodal social semiotic approach to bear on the exploration of how literature is read collectively in the classroom, and how teachers encourage the active, embodied reading of these literary texts.