2015
DOI: 10.29173/cmplct23172
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Multiple Possibilities: The Multi-literate Lives of Three Children

Abstract: This paper presents findings from an eleven-year ethnographic study which describes how three children used different sign systems to become literate, to define who they are and to construct their literate identity. They each engaged with literacies in powerful and life transforming ways. Each child used multiple literacies to learn, understand and create meaning more fully; using their motivated interest in a preferred literacy to scaffold their learning of another literacy.In analysing this rich literacies u… Show more

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“…Emily, Tristan, and Simon helped me to see literacies as complex in their conception and use (Compton‐Lilly et al, 2020; Wood, 2015) and to understand that all sign systems (e.g. art, dance, reading, writing, maths, sports, videogaming) are semiotic (Danesi, 2004; Wood, 2015) in that they use signs to convey meaning or are symbolic.…”
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“…Emily, Tristan, and Simon helped me to see literacies as complex in their conception and use (Compton‐Lilly et al, 2020; Wood, 2015) and to understand that all sign systems (e.g. art, dance, reading, writing, maths, sports, videogaming) are semiotic (Danesi, 2004; Wood, 2015) in that they use signs to convey meaning or are symbolic.…”
Section: Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Emily, Tristan, and Simon helped me to see literacies as complex in their conception and use (Compton‐Lilly et al, 2020; Wood, 2015) and to understand that all sign systems (e.g. art, dance, reading, writing, maths, sports, videogaming) are semiotic (Danesi, 2004; Wood, 2015) in that they use signs to convey meaning or are symbolic. We take a multiliteracies approach (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009) and see literacies as multimodal, meaning focused, and motivated; they involve specific social and cultural practices which differ depending on site and community (Berghoff et al, 2000; Gee, 2004; Wood, 2007, 2015).…”
Section: Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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