...Alison Jane Croasdale Purpose This paper aims to apply a “revisiting” approach to past game literacy-based research. Starting from a media literacy and videogame making oriented PhD project, it explores how the discussion of past research can be evolved, but also questions what young research...

...Sandra Boateng; Chenlu Jin; Jeevan Karki; Rebecca Lee; Laxmi Prasad Ojha; Tri Sugiarto; Vaughn W.M. Watson Purpose This paper aims to expand contours of social and cultural theories of literacy by developing a framework emphasizing the necessity of journeying and everydayness in literacy research...

...) functions of translanguaging can work together to support asset-based literacy learning for bi/multilingual learners. Design/methodology/approach The first author used ethnographic methods (Heath and Street) and qualitative coding (Saldaña, 2016) to examine the role of translanguaging across six lessons...

... to learning and literacy, this study aims to center the experiences and perspectives of young people who encounter and experiment with generative AI in their daily writing practices. Design/methodology/approach This critical case study of one digital platform – Character.ai – brings together an adolescent...

...Grace Enriquez; Victoria Gill; Gerald Campano; Tracey T. Flores; Stephanie Jones; Kevin M. Leander; Lucinda McKnight; Detra Price-Dennis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a transcript of a dialogue among literacy educators and researchers on the impact of generative aritficial...

...Emery Petchauer; Tia Harvey; Rolando Ybarra Purpose This paper aims to explore sonic play in close proximity to a music, literacy and songwriting for social change community-based initiative. The authors leverage ideas about time, space and narrative under the concept of sonic flux to understand...

...Erin McNeill Purpose The purpose of this study is an exploration of stories told by multilingual students participating in a literacy project in a secondary English course as part of a larger three year practitioner inquiry study, in which the author analyzed students’ literacy project to create...

...Angie Zapata; Monica C. Kleekamp Purpose Literacy research exploring multimodal composition and justice-oriented children’s literature each have rich landscapes and histories. This paper aims to add to both of these bodies of scholarship through the emerging assemblage of Studio F, a fifth-grade...

... of the world by illuminating how this group of girls responded to and incorporated broader social issues. Design/methodology/approach This study takes place in a third-grade classroom. Using qualitative methods that build on critical multimodal literacy, the authors documented and analyzed children’s...

...Antero Garcia; Stephanie M. Robillard; Miroslav Suzara; Jorge E. Garcia Purpose This study explores student sensemaking based on the creation and interpretation of sound on a public school bus, operating as a result of a desegregation settlement. To understand these multimodal literacy practices...

...Esther O. Ohito Purpose This study aims to investigate multimodal composition as an exercise or tool for teaching students theory building. To illustrate, an analysis of artifacts comprising a student’s multimodal composition, which was created in response to a multipart literacy assignment...

... they were fully aware of the “complexity, interrelatedness and interdependence between image [animation and sound] and language” (Shanahan, 2013 , p. 213). Literacy Multimodal composition Semiotic Modes Elementary In the corner of a school’s computer room, conversations took place with Grade...

...Faythe Beauchemin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to work toward more fully conceptualizing literacy practices as social by theorizing the combined relational and intellectual context for learning. This context is created through students’ and their teachers’ uses of language. In particular...

... on their own post and the choices they made supported students’ work in Project 1. As a culmination of the project, students presented their Instagram posts to the class. Figure 1. Template students used in Project 1 to create their Instagram post Media Literacy teaching New literacies...

... An ethnography-in-education approach was used to capture the social and cultural aspects of literacy learning in an English-only context. A multimodal transcript analysis was applied to video-recorded data as a method for examining semiotic resources and modes of learning. Findings The results revealed...

.../approach The authors present an illustrative case of the ways girls’ embodied literacy identities emerge when Jillian, Isa, and Rhianna intra-act with materials in an assemblage that includes their material-discursive positionings through qualitative and multimodal interaction analysis. Findings...

...Lina Trigos-Carrillo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literacy practices of the families and communities of first-generation college students in Latin America, and how community and family literacies can inform the understanding of first-generation college students’ identity...

... teacher agency to produce instructional changes that support multilingual learners. Originality/value PD can play a key role in transforming literacy instruction for multilingual learners. Teacher agency, including the decisions teachers make about how to engage with professional learning...

... and regulated by national, state and local governments. Yet, Big-P policies are not the only policies enacted in literacies classrooms. Rather, little-p policies or teachers’ local, personal and creative enactments of their values and expertise are also in play in daily classroom decisions. Little p-policies...

... also explores how the youth become active participants in the telling of political narratives/testimonios. Design/methodology/approach Part of a larger ethnographic case study, the author adopts the ethnographic approaches of the new literacy studies. Testimonios as a research epistemology...