The board as a space enabling the multimodal co-construction of one’s identity as a writer among Allophones students
Based on multimodal analysis of a daily cowriting ritual conducted with Allophone students, this article shows how a writing medium (in this case the board) can give rise to and/or be embedded in an assortment of representations entertained by various actors. The space of the board, including in front of and surrounding the medium itself, becomes a place of self-staging that brings into play one’s relationship to writing and norms. It is also a space that must be territorialized in order to enable students to assert their identities, both as students and as individuals writing in French, within their classroom groups.