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The document discusses the evolution of literacy from being focused on basic reading and writing skills to becoming more diverse and multifaceted due to technological developments and changing social needs. It describes how literacy now encompasses various types like computer, technology, internet, and media literacy. Over time, literacy has expanded and transformed based on societal requirements. The document also outlines seven new literacies that are important for the 21st century curriculum: multicultural, social, media, financial, digital, ecological, and creative literacy. Finally, it discusses research findings about the importance of technology and new literacies for student success and engagement.
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Group1 Literacy 1

The document discusses the evolution of literacy from being focused on basic reading and writing skills to becoming more diverse and multifaceted due to technological developments and changing social needs. It describes how literacy now encompasses various types like computer, technology, internet, and media literacy. Over time, literacy has expanded and transformed based on societal requirements. The document also outlines seven new literacies that are important for the 21st century curriculum: multicultural, social, media, financial, digital, ecological, and creative literacy. Finally, it discusses research findings about the importance of technology and new literacies for student success and engagement.
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NEW

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.

Hereafter, literacy then became multi-faceted.


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

At first, literacy was used Later on, it became a


in various types, such as lifestyle along with a
computer literacy, person's entire life in a
technology literacy, society that encompasses
Internet literacy, and
information literacy,
media literacy, respectively
cultural literacy and
(Altun, 2005).
universal literacy.
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

Truly, literacy has changed and


developed through a multitude of
phases within a specific period based
on societal needs.
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

However, along this line, literacy It includes a socially-driven and


is not confined only to knowing evolved a pattern of activities, such
how to read and write rather, it as writing correspondence, records
is a matter of applying knowledge keeping and inventories, posting
for specific purposes in particular announcements, reporting, etc.
contexts.
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

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

To be literate requires Subject-specific literacies are


comprehension, selection and use recognized to require the
of multimodal codes and application of specialized
conventions to interpret and knowledge and skills, information
express ideas, feelings and
skills, and the creative and
information.
imaginative language.
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

The increasingly complexity of These broad skills include visual


modern communication gives rise to
literacy, information literacy,
a number of distinct capabilities and
possibilities. cultural literacy and digital literacy
dynamics.
Hence, 21st Century literacy
combines cross-curricular
capabilities also called
'multiliteracies1 and now commonly
referred to as 'new literacies'.
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

Leander (2003) noted that new literacies are often flexible,


continuous and open, where online and offline lives and
"literacyscapes" merge.
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

There are seven new literacies that


are stressed in the 21st century
curriculum.
Seven New Literacies that are stressed
in the 21st Century Curriculum

Multicultural is about understanding ethnic groups that comprise the


population and focuses on complex issues of identity, diversity
Literacy
and citizenship.

Social is the development of social skills, knowledge and positive


values in human beings to act positively and responsibly in
Literacy
sophisticated complex social settings.
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

Seven New Literacies that are stressed


in the 21st Century Curriculum

Media is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media.

Literacy

Financial is the ability to make informed judgments and make effective


decisions regarding the use and management of money. is the
Literacy ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media.
Seven New Literacies that are stressed
in the 21st Century Curriculum

Digital is the ability to effectively use digital devices for


purposes of communication, expression, collaboration
Literacy and advocacy in a knowledge-based society.

Ecological is understanding the principles of ecosystems toward sustainability.

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

The Truth on 21st Century


Literacies According to
Research
Since success with technology
depends largely on critical thinking
and reflection, teachers with
relatively little technological skills
can provide less useful instruction.
Therefore, schools must support the
teachers by providing them
professional training and up-to-date
technology for utilization in
classrooms.
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

Global economies, new technologies, and


exponential growth in information are
transforming our society.

Since today's people engage with a


technology-driven, diverse, and quickly
changing world, teachers need to prepare
students for this world with problem-
solving, collaboration, and analysis, as
well as skills with word processing,
hypertext, LCDs, Webcams, podcasts,
smartboards, and social networking
software that are central to individual
and community success.
The National Council of Teachers of English (2013)
came up with a research that reveals the following:

[1] As new technologies shape literacies, they


[3] Research on electronic reading
bring opportunities for teachers to foster reading
workshops show that they contribute to
and writing in more diverse and participatory
the emergence of new literacies.
contexts.

[2] Sites, like literature's Voice of the Shuttle,


[4] Research also shows that digital
online fan fiction, and the Internet Public Library,
technology enhances writing and
expand both the range of available texts and the
interaction in several ways.
social dimension of literacy.
The National Council of Teachers of English (2013)
came up with a research that reveals the following:

[5] K-12 students, who write with


computers, produce compositions of greater
length and higher quality are more engaged
with and motivated toward writing than
those who do not write with computers.

[6] College students, who keep e-portfolios,


[7] Both typical and atypical students, who
have a higher rate of academic achievement
and overall retention rate than those who do receive an online response to writing, revise
not keep e-portfolios. They also demonstrate their works better than those participating in
a greater capacity for metacognition, traditional method.
reflection and audience awareness.
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
Literacy

The term functional literacy was initially defined by


UNESCO through William S. Gray in his Teaching of
Reading and Writing (1956) as adult training to meet
independently the reading and writing demands
placed on them.
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
It stresses the acquisition of appropriate verbal,
cognitive and computational skills to accomplish
practical results in specific cultural settings dubbed

Literacy as survival literacy and reductionist literacy.

Over the decades, as societies have evolved into


technical innovations, the definition of functional
literacy has been modified to meet the changing
demands (Concise Oxford Companion to the English
Language, 1998).
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

1 .Literacy programs should


be...
Functional Literacy integrated to and correlated with
economic and social development
Referring to functional literacy,
plans.
UNESCO states the following:
2. The eradication of
illiteracy should begin...
with population sectors, which are
highly motivated and need literacy for
their own and their country's benefit.

3. Literacy programs must


impart...
not only reading and writing but also
professional and technical knowledge
leading to greater participation of
adults in economic and civic life.
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

4. Literacy programs should


Functional Literacy be...

linked with economic priorities and


Referring to functional literacy, carried out in areas undergoing rapid
UNESCO states the following: economic expansion.

5. Literacy must be an...

integral part of the over-all educational


system and plan of each country.

6. The financial need for...

functional literacy should be met with


various resources, as well as be
provided for economic investments.
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 7. The literacy programs should...

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

Thus, literacy materials present...

reading, writing, and numeracy concepts using

Functional words and ideas needed in using information


for learners to enhance sufficient literacy skills
and continue learning on their own.
Literacy A new functional literacy aspect,...

called specific literacy, is becoming a trend, in


which the job of the student is analyzed to see
exactly the literacy skills needed and those
that are only taught; this is to prevent job-skill
mismatch.
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

In specific literacy, the student may

Functional learn...

very little will be of immediate value that

Literacy would result in increased learner


motivation.

Therefore, the specific literacy


strategy...

is a planning tool that allows the literacy


worker to focus on skills that are of value
to the learners.
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

Significance of this approach


Functional includes...
literacy that: (1) starts in the
Literacy workplace; (2) uses a diagnostic
approach; (3) identifies turning
points in economic life that may act
as an incentive to learning; (4)
assesses the limits of a short-term
intervention; and (5) looks for
generic skills.
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

Gunes (2000) posited that functional


Functional literacy constitutes the...
second level of literacy next to basic
Literacy literacy, in which literacy and
mathematical information and skills
can be utilized in one's personal,
social, economic, and cultural
endeavors.
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

In context, Capar (1998) cites that...


Functional a functionally literate person is someone

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.

It is, therefore, an ongoing process.


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

UNESCO defines functional literacy...


Functional as the ability of an individual to take part in

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

Hatch (2010) defines it based on the...

Functional American Heritage College Dictionary


(AHCD).

Literacy Accordingly, the word "functional" means


"building capacity" and "literacy" as "reading
and writing skills."

Therefore, it is the capability to proficiently


read and write that can be used in daily life
routines.
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

Likewise, Knoblauch and Brannon (1993),


Functional as cited in Jabusch (2002) distinguished basic

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

The Education for All Global Monitoring


Functional Report (UNESCO, 2006)....
states that functional literacy means the
Literacy ability to make significant use of activities
involving reading and writing skills that
include using information, communicating
with others, and following a path of lifelong
learning necessary for the ability to express
him/herself in daily life.
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

UNESCO's definition also adds that...


Functional functional literacy includes those skills

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

The National Statistics Authority


Functional defines...

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.

Based on these definitions, functional literacy can be


concluded as an activity that contributes to the
development of an individual and the society, including
the ability to use information and skills related to
listening, speaking, reading, writing, and arithmetic
necessary for daily life in social, cultural and economic
aspects effectively (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org).
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Sobrevega, Leah
Paniagua, Ceinrich
Binoy, Catherine

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