RIZA E. MASBUHIN

Literacy

• More than the ability to read and write

• Ability to comprehend secondary discourse (Gee)

• Ability to interpret text

• Multimodality

  • technology in the digital age

  • Graffiti

  • Critical thinking

  • Reading the world (Freire) using life experience

• NLS (new literacy studies) (Street) new conceptualization power on the screen rather than the book

  • Connected to social context

Illiteracy

• Inability to comprehend secondary discourse (Gee)

  • distance from dominant discourse

• New social environment – communicative competence

• Lack of power, voice, rights

• Inability to communicate with verbal (written) resources

Characteristics

• Power (cow video)

• Knowledgeable in/about specific contexts/areas

• Educated but not necessarily in school (Gee)

• Able to make meaning from print

Example

• Amal’s story: wrote a story in 3rd grade where she imagined herself as a stamp

  • Imagination

• Nouf’s story: stories from grandma from Egypt (war, KSA)

• Ghost stories (all of us)

• Playing dress up, role play, dolls, house – socializing