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Callow, Jon; Zammit, Katina – English in Australia, 2012
From the original performances of Shakespeare's plays and the illustrated title page of his First Folios, to the current day use of YouTube, mobile phones and tablets, multimodal texts have been apparent across Western cultures. The rapid development over the last 20 years of technology has markedly increased access to a much broader array of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities
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Honan, Eileen – English in Australia, 2010
This article assumes that literacy practices are social practices. Based on the New Literacy Studies (Street, 2005) this view of literacy provides an understanding that the ways a person reads and writes change, depending on that person's identity, the type of texts that are involved and the context in which those texts and identities are located.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Role, Influence of Technology