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Literacy practices in students' everyday lives
Results of the analysis:
The literacy practices which students tend to use in their everyday lives are, on the whole:
Multi-modal. On the whole, students reading and writing combines the use of symbols, pictures, colour, music, etc.
Multi-media. Students' uses of literacy combine the uses of paper-based and electronic media.
Shared. For example, they tend to be interactive, participatory and collaborative.
Non-linear. For example, different reading paths are taken through a text - dipping in to sections, flicking through, finding relevant bits - rather than following a linear route from the beginning to the end of the text.
Agentic. Students tend to have responsibility within these practices.
Purposeful to the student.
Have a clear sense of audience.
Generative - involving sense-making and creativity.
Self-determined in terms of activity, time and place.
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