BEYOND TRADITIONAL LITERACIES: A MULTIMODAL-BASED INSTRUCTION TO FOSTERING STUDENT DIGITAL LITERACY LEARNING

Teaching Multimodal and Digital Literacy in L2 Settings: New Literacies, New Basics, New Pedagogies

Globalization and digitization have reshaped the communication landscape, affecting how and with whom we communicate, and deeply altering the terrain of language and literacy education. As children in urban contexts become socialized into communities of increasing cultural and communicational connectivity, complexity, and convergence (Jenkins, 2004), and funding for specialist second language (...

Media competence and visual literacy – towards considerations beyond literacies

Debates on media competency and media literacy are going on now for a few decades. Many concepts have been developed in various disciplines. Along with that, discourses on visual literacy have been intensified, too, although visuals have been used in educational contexts throughout history. But only recently, after almost three thousand years of historiography, turns like iconic turn, pictorial...

Assessment of library instruction to develop student information literacy skills.

Fostering Digital Literacy between Schools and the Local Community: Using Service Learning and Project-Based Learning as a Conceptual Framework

42 Digital Reading Fluency and Text Presentation Medium Preference in EFL Context Jaleh Hasaskhah, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Behzad Barekat, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran Nahid Farhang Asa, Department of English Language and Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran InternatIonal Journal of DIgI...

Fostering literacy learning in supportive contexts.

Young children with learning disabilities typically encounter difficulty with academic tasks requiring intentional effort and effective use of metacognitive skills--qualities that competent readers and writers possess. In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful...