New literacy practices an opportunity to maintain social relationships and achieve new learning in another language
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https://doi.org/10.18041/2382-3240/saber.2018v13n1.2562Keywords:
New literacy practices, new media and technologies, literacy, future teachersAbstract
Traditionally, the term literacy has been often associated with the ability to read and write, and particularly print- based texts. However, there is among the young people a new generation that demonstrates tendencies to read and write out of classroom setting “through new literacy practices that use new media and technologies” (Wilber, 2008, p. 59). This study took place at a public university in Colombia and describes specifically a group of future English language teachers´ experience whose new literacy practices focused on networks, videogames, blogs or web page readings, that allowed them to interpret and create meaning through different types of texts which were built from linguistic, aural and visual elements. The results described that the social reading and writing processes in the web not only strengthened the individuals´ social interaction with foreigners but also promoted new learning opportunities. Other results described that the social reading and writing processes in the web not only strengthened the individuals´ social interaction with foreigners but also promoted new learning opportunities because these kinds of literacy show themselves more collaborative, more student centered and less individual than conventional literacy practices (Lankashear y Knobel, 2011, p. 184), (Knobel & Lankshear, 2014, p. 98)
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