“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning

Changing Text: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Textbooks

“…These observations have put notions of 'literacy' as 'language demands of the curriculum' into a new perspective. It is not only language that learners need to grapple with, but a set of multimodal resources for making meaning (New London Group, 1996;Lemke, 2000;Cope & Kalantzis, 2009).…”

Qualitative Research in CALL

“…Other researchers have offered variations of this framework (Bax, 2003;Blake, 2008;Jung, 2005;Kern & Warschauer, 2000). More recently, CALL has moved to mobile and more informal contexts (KukulskaHulme & Shield, 2008;O'Dowd, 2003O'Dowd, , 2006 and to a repurposing of technology (Conole, 2008), and the pedagogical focus has shifted to learner and teacher literacies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009). In terms of research methodologies, user narratives (Barkhuizen, Benson, & Chik, 2013;Barkhuizen & Wette, 2008), semiotic approaches focusing on how language learners make meaning (Hampel, 2014) and online or virtual ethnography (Hine, 2008) offer unique insights into the experience of online linguistic environments and specific 'cultures-of-use' (Thorne, 2003).…”

Home Literacy Environment and English Language Learners’ Literacy Development: What Can We Learn from the Literature?

“…With the increasing use of technology, literacy is no longer restricted to an ability to deal with printed texts, but has expanded to include electronic and multimedia modes. Nonetheless, as Cope and Kalantzis (2009) argue, "whichever way we look, written language is not going away. It is just becoming more closely intertwined with the other modes" (p. 182).…”

“…In addition, rapid development in technology has changed how we look at literacy; the idea of multiliteracies shifts our thinking about literacy from privileging the printed text to acknowledging various ways that literacy is practiced in a society (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009). With the increasing use of technology, literacy is no longer restricted to an ability to deal with printed texts, but has expanded to include electronic and multimedia modes.…”

“…However, this construct emphasizes the role of print in literacy development. Cope and Kalantzis (2009) suggest that it is important to consider multiliteracies, with "linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial modes of meaning becoming increasingly integrated in everyday media and cultural practices" (p. 166). Alternatively, Burgess, Hecht, and Lonigan (2002) define the HLE as either passive or active.…”