Group1 Literacy 1
Group1 Literacy 1
LITERACIES,
FUNCTIONAL
LITERACY AND
MULTILITERACY
GROUP 01
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
New
Literacies
Between 1950 and 1970, the development
of literacy, both operational and functional,
was established.
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
New Literacies
During this period, literacy was defined as reading and writing skills necessitated for
activities in modern society (Gunes, 2000).
Beyond the 1990s, literacy had started to diversify in the light of technological
developments, change of living conditions in cities, and the new necessities.
Kress (2003) posited that Literacies can bear a coding system that
literacy can only happen when can capture the meaning, such as
having a kind of potential "letteracy" (i.e., within language and
content through interaction recognition of alphabetic symbols.)
with the text.
Moreover, the Primary English Teaching
Likewise, a particular text may be Association Australia (2015) asserts that
understood for being connected or 21st Century literacy has expanded to
related. include social change, increasing field
expertise and digital technologies.
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
These new literacies are fused with traditional print literacy to create
opportunities and enable students to understand and use new text types,
while exploring knowledge and information with a wide array of
technological tools, such as blogging, fanfic writing, manga producing,
meme-ing, and photoshopping, anime music video (AMV), podcasting,
vodcasting, and gaming, running a paper-based zine, reading literary
novels, and wordless picture books, reading graphic novels and comics
and reading bus timetables (Primary English Teaching Association
Australia, 2015).
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Exploring the
New Literacies
Literacy
Literacy
Seven New Literacies that are stressed
in the 21st Century Curriculum
Creative is the ability to make original ideas that have value, and the
Literacy ability to see the world in new ways.
The Truth on 21st Century Literacies
According to Research
NEW LITERACIES, FUNCTIONAL
L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Functional
Literacy
Functional
It stresses the acquisition of appropriate verbal,
cognitive and computational skills to accomplish
practical results in specific cultural settings dubbed
Literacy
aid in achieving main economic objectives
(i.e. increase in labor productivity, food
production, industrialization, social and
Referring to functional professional mobility, creation of new
literacy, UNESCO states the
manpower and diversification of the
following:
economy).
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Functional learn...
Literacy
who is one step ahead of literacy and
maintains literacy activity throughout
his/her life in order to keep living and
effectively accommodate him/herself to
his/her surrounding.
Literacy
significant activities in professional, social,
political and cultural aspects in a society,
where he/she lives using his/her literacy
skills (De Castel, 1971; Goksen, Gulgoz and
Kagitcibasi, 2000; as cited in Savas, 2006).
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Literacy
literacy and functional literacy as having the
expression "functional" to indicate performance
with texts, including mathematics.
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Literacy
essential for both official and unofficial
participation, as well as those which are
necessary for national change and
development that can be used to aid an
individual in contributing to his/her own
development and that of his/her family and
the society.
N E W L I T E R A C I E S , F U N C T I O N A L L I T E R A C Y A N D M U LT I L I T E R A C Y
Literacy
functional literacy as the level of literacy that includes
reading, writing and numeracy skills that help people
cope with the daily demands of life.