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Introduction

• Purpose: Equip students with skills for participating in modern society.

• Limitations: Traditional literacy focused on standard language, neglecting technology and cultural changes.

Expanded Perspectives of Literacy

• New Literacies: Emerged to address changes in information management and employment under new capitalism.

  • Characteristics: Emphasizes technology's cultural impact and includes digital mediums.

  • Constructs (Lankshear & Knobel, 2007): Includes technical and participatory approaches.

  • Research Themes: Focus on cultural diversity, youth practices, and multimodal meaning-making.

• Multiliteracies: Introduced by the New London Group for adapting literacy to social dynamics.

  • Features: Incorporates various modes and situates literacy within social purposes.

  • Design Framework: Involves the design, shaping, and redesigning of resources and meanings.

  • Example: The evolution of the character "囧" in Chinese.

Pedagogical Strategies: Proposed four components for literacy education:

1. Situated Practice: Engage students in relevant experiences.

2. Over Instruction: Teacher-driven to promote understanding of diverse resources.

3. Critical Framing: Assessing contexts for resource selection.

4. Transformed Practice: Applying literacy knowledge across contexts.

Conclusion: New Literacies and Multiliteracies redefine literacy, recognizing diverse forms and fostering cultural appreciation and critical engagement.