The present study compares the performance of two TEFL reading classes: one taking place in a regular classroom and the other held in a computer lab, with the learners practicing reading online. The results of an independent samples t-test showed that the difference between the learners’ scores on their reading comprehension post-tests and pretests did not differ statistically significantly fro...

This article draws on research conducted at a tertiary institution in South Africa as part of the redesigning of an English for Educational Development (EED) course to include an e-learning online discussion component. The subject material used was based on HIV/ AIDS topics that students had to debate within an online discussion forum. Framed by the concept of Multiliteracies and the Social Con...

Dear JAAL Readers, The moment when we were writing this introduction was a bittersweet one for us because is our last issue as coeditors of the Journal Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Learning about colleagues’ work in fostering adolescent and adult literacy has been pure pleasure. As wrote, pandemic raging amid growing vaccine distribution, United States had inaugurated its new president, univers...

Introduction This article arises from recent industry-partner research between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Digital Child, LEGO Group, and Edith Cowan University (ECU), examining new ways communicating children’s perspectives digital citizenship to policy makers industry in a project called Safety Citizenship Roundtables: Using Consultation Creativity Engage Stakeholders (Children, Policy I...

This article reports on a qualitative content analysis of a sample of national information literacy policies, whether endorsed by states or professional bodies. It develops a framework for analysis which is attuned to the idea that information literacy can and should be viewed from multiple perspectives; this being the “six frames of information literacy” model developed by Bruce, Edwards, and ...

This paper presents an overview of the development of current practice in information literacy education in tertiary institutions in South Africa. The policy framework affecting information literacy is examined from multiple perspectives. An examination of the literature identifies key concerns that are used in the compilation of a small survey instrument to establish current practice. The impa...

In their article "Video Games as Equipment for Living" Ronald Soetaert, Jeroen Bourgonjon, and Kris Rutten postulate that with the emergence of new media there is need of a re-evaluation of all modes of communication and the ways in which literacy is conceptualized. Drawing on the concept of multi-literacy they suggest a rhetorical/ anthropological meta-perspective to describe human beings as s...