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Chinese character Learning has been identified as one of the most challenging issues for English-speaking learners of Chinese due to the distinctions between the Chinese writing system and alphabetic languages in terms of orthography,... more
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      Literacy, Second Language Acquisition, New Literacies, Chinese Language and Culture
In educational technology, the idea of innovation is usually tethered to contemporary technological inventions and emerging technologies. Yet, using long-known technologies in ways that are pedagogically or experientially new can... more
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      Literacy, Academic Writing, Digital Media & Learning, New Literacies
Despite the growth in online learning offerings in K-12 and higher education, limited research has been undertaken to better understand less visible online learning activities. Reading and rereading are not typically valued as important... more
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      Educational Technology, Assessment, Blended E-Learning, Online Instruction
Fan practices involving translation open up opportunities to explore language learning practices within the fandom (Sauro, 2017). We examine how three fans capitalize on fan translation and language learning. We consider the cases of Selo... more
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      Japanese Studies, Literacy, Education, Teaching English as a Second Language
All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty‐first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social... more
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      Technology, New Media, Informal Learning, Educational Technology
This study examined the role of a social network site (SNS) in the lives of 11 high school teenagers from low-income families in the US We conducted interviews, talk-alouds and content analysis of MySpace profiles. Qualitative analysis of... more
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      Literacy, Education, New Media, Informal Learning
This work uses the lens of new literacy studies to examine the narratives told through the tattoos of Karen youth refugees living in the United States. This insight into a single ethnic group, currently under-represented in the... more
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      New Literacies, Refugee Youth Culture
Probablemente la lectura es uno de los medios fundamentales de acceso y construcción de conocimientos especializados, tanto en el mundo académico como en el profesional. Entonces, comprender el discurso escrito a través de sus diversos... more
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      Discourse Analysis, Reading Habits/Attitudes, New Literacies
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      Eportfolio, Learning and Teaching, New Literacies, Teaching Methodology
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      New Literacies, Teaching Methodology, New Technologies, Ancient Greek Literature
This paper contributes a definition of mobile literacies, with specific reference to higher education. This is worthwhile because although mobile, internet-enabled devices are increasingly prevalent in many people's lives, mobile... more
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      Literacy, Mobile Learning, Digital Literacy, Higher Education
This study aims at understanding forms of fostering (multi)literacies in pedagogical activities in the XXI century learning materials for the teaching of English in high schools; how to promote digital literacies in printed materials; and... more
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      Critical Pedagogy, New Literacies, Internet memes, Language learning materials development
To appear in Portuguese in: Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. (forthcoming). Memes online, afinidades e produção cultural (2007 – 2018). In Chagas, Viktor (ed.). Estudos sobre Memes: história, política e novas experiências de letramento. 2019.
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      Digital Media, New Literacies, Internet memes, Memes
(144 words) This post-inquiry paper looks to the intimate matter of young children and their worlds outside of school. With new materialism, water and art as philosophical muse, a new kind of 'sustaining nature' for environmental... more
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      Education, Water, Environmental Studies, New Literacies
RESUMO: Pressupondo que os sujeitos da contemporaneidade são constituídos na heterogeneidade e que os textos constituem locais de interação entre sujeitos comunicativos, o objetivo deste artigo de cunho bibliográfico é discorrer sobre as... more
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      Teacher Education, New Literacies, Formação De Professores
¿Cuántas veces nos hemos quedado anonadados ante el solo de guitarra o batería del componente de nuestro grupo preferido? ¿Cuántas veces hemos salido de un concierto con ganas de formar una banda? ¿O simplemente le hemos pedido al... more
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      Music Education, Participatory Action Research, Action Research, New Literacies
This contribution focuses on an innovative educational experience developed in a Public High School in Madrid, where a group of youngsters and their music teacher created their own music bands to interpret popular songs of their favourite... more
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      Music Education, Participatory Action Research, Action Research, New Literacies
AbstrAct: This article investigates the importance of critical thinking in English language teaching. It begins with an examination of the notion of praxis and its relevance for current critical literacy research and teacher education... more
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Now as a researcher, and thinking back on my years as a language and literacy teacher, I find myself thinking about remixing: an acceptable term and part of hip‐hop and social media practice, for example, but potentially seen as copying... more
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      Improvisation, Creativity, Digital Literacy, New Literacies
This paper examines the language, literacies, communicative, and rhetorical practices of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The work pays attention to the communication practices of the BLM and Hip Hop generation in its extension of... more
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      Black Studies Or African American Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Digital Literacy, Black/African Diaspora