Mary M. McConnaha, Joanne E. Marciano, Brittany M. Brewer, Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson
{"title":"“They can learn it through us”: Youth seeking racial justice through a community-based book club","authors":"Mary M. McConnaha, Joanne E. Marciano, Brittany M. Brewer, Lauren Elizabeth Reine Johnson","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the summer of 2020, amidst state-mandated social distancing and protests for racial justice, youth participating in an ongoing YPAR initiative sought to design and facilitate a book club for the residents of their subsidized housing community to increase community awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through interviews, youth shared their plans to design and facilitate a book club differently than they had experienced in English classroom settings. Through the lenses of critical literacy and civic praxis, the youths' imaginings reveal a desire to talk about books that were relevant to their lives, involve discussions that were participant-led and democratic, and lead to meaningful, tangible outcomes. Implications encourage teachers to re-examine their classroom book club practices and consider ways to center student desires.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"536-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers' perceptions of disciplinary literacy: A critical discourse analysis","authors":"Heather Waymouth, Madison Weary","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1384","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explored eight middle school teachers' language about literacy implementation in their disciplinary classrooms. Interview data and supplemental artifact data were gathered from two previous studies focused on disciplinary literacy in middle school settings. This critical discourse analysis examined how teachers' language elucidated their perspectives toward literacy and for whom literacy instruction is intended. Findings suggest that teachers considered literacy instruction as remediation, as access to content, and as an opportunity for student agency. Teachers' language around literacy as remediation and as access demonstrated potential dysconscious racism and ableism. This may reify systems of power which position White, able-bodied/minded students' literacies as a more desirable foundation for disciplinary learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"526-535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143446632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Johnny B. Allred, Sean P. Connors, Christian Z. Goering
{"title":"Social annotation and dialogic teaching and learning in English language arts","authors":"Johnny B. Allred, Sean P. Connors, Christian Z. Goering","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1382","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research study explores the role of social annotation in supporting dialogic teaching in secondary English language arts. Grounded in Bakhtin's dialogism and building upon research into online discussion, this study describes how a high school English teacher and her students used a digital annotation tool to read and talk about texts. Analyzing student annotations based on discourse features associated with comprehension and high-level thinking, the study examines the extent to which social annotation supports quality dialogue. Findings highlight the need for open-ended prompts and teacher scaffolding of online discussions, and authors suggest that dialogue enhances comprehension of texts when students go beyond reporting on others' thoughts and instead share their own ideas, connections, and questions about the text.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"515-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142209887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How teachers accommodate digital multimodal communication in pedagogy: A review of Designing Learning for Multimodal Literacy—Teaching Viewing and Representing","authors":"Dan Liu","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1383","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"512-514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142209885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetry unveiled: Multimodality and aesthetic responses as a fresh approach to teaching and reading verse","authors":"Claire Ahn, Alexandra Minuk","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1381","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1381","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In secondary English classrooms, poetry is often a text that is least liked because it is viewed as being “inaccessible,” reserved for the elite, and/or too abstract. Part of the reason for this also lies in the traditional, colonial structures of introducing poetry such as relying on canonical texts and close reading analysis. Yet, outside of the classroom poetry is used in more accessible and engaging manners. With the advancements of technology, there also includes multimodal ways in which to read and write poetry that could be much more interesting for both educators and youth. This paper opens a discussion to consider multimodal and aesthetic responses to including poetry such as using digital apps like PhoneMe, a free accessible platform that allows users to post their written poems, record themselves reciting poems, and pin their poems directly on to an interactive digital map. The uniqueness of PhoneMe—a layered multimodal approach—can provide a more engaging way to teach and learn poetry.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"506-511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142209886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using positioning theory to investigate the participation of culturally and linguistically diverse adolescent students in classroom discussion","authors":"Karissa J. Sywulka","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1380","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Teachers have a critical opportunity to decide how to position transnational funds of knowledge of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. Positioning theory investigates how views of self and others are applied in social interactions. This scoping literature review identified nine studies that used positioning theory to trace the participation of adolescent CLD students in classroom discussions. The review was limited to peer-reviewed studies set in school and afterschool classes in the United States. The findings provide a variety of real-world examples of students and teachers negotiating their identities and navigating participatory opportunities. In response to how the findings revealed the far-reaching influence of the teacher, this article introduces a model illustrating the intersection of two key components of teaching style: teacher beliefs and positioning of transnational funds of knowledge. Four teacher profiles represent four stances: The Culturally Responsive Teacher, The Wide Net, The Silencer, and The Idealist.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"495-505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142209888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging critical literacy on social media interaction in acculturation","authors":"Shiyu Cai, Chun Lai","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1379","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Acculturation is the process of psychological and behavioral change that individuals go through during and after intercultural contacts. Social media have become a major space for cross-cultural encounters, and are important venues of socialization for marginalized populations. Intercultural encounters on social media may benefit or detriment the acculturation process, and how marginalized populations make sense of their social media experience is pivotal in this respect. Nonetheless, there is a scarcity of research that examines non-dominant ethnic groups' meaning-making of and digital literacy practices on social media and how these practices relate to acculturation. To fill this research gap, this study collected data through semi-structured interviews with 44 non-dominant ethnic adolescents in Hong Kong. Through the theoretical lens of critical literacy, this study revealed various facets of literacy practices in which these underrepresented adolescents engaged and found that these practices, and the lack thereof, moderated their acculturation process on and beyond social media platforms. The findings suggest that critical digital literacy on social media interaction is critical to non-dominant ethnic groups' acculturation process.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"481-494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143447216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing globally: South Korean adolescents' digital multimodal composing practices in a global online community","authors":"Jin Kyeong Jung","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1378","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This design-based study explored the digital and linguistic practices of South Korean adolescents from a rural area within the Write4Change global online community, emphasizing their use of image-driven tools. Framed within the cosmopolitan literacies perspective, these adolescents adeptly merge local and global dimensions, integrating their multilingual identities, and compelling visual narratives into their work. They navigate English, the dominant language of the online community, while incorporating multilingual elements to enrich community dialogues. These practices reflect their linguistic adaptability and digital literacies and underscore the significant role of cosmopolitan literacies in transforming literacy studies. The study highlights the impactful digital practices of South Korean adolescents, contributing to a broader understanding of inclusivity and diversity in global literacies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 2","pages":"178-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142041587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dancing with BBoy: Transliteracies and critical imagination in superhero storytelling","authors":"Beth Krone, Patricia Enciso","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1377","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1377","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we describe a year-long superhero storytelling project we facilitated with youth in a midwestern middle school. In this project, students read <i>Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spiderman</i> , designed superhero stories set in their community, and presented artistic representations of their stories to their families and peers. We present three episodes of mobile storytelling from this project, focusing on Aidan, one of eighteen youth participants. Using tools from theories of transliteracies and critical imagination, we illustrate how Aidan's embodied movement and play constituted critically literate acts. A transliteracies lens oriented toward critical imagination reveals how Aidan fluidly moved between fictional and real worlds to reimagine his experienced realities. These findings indicate a need to expand what counts as literate activity in schools.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 5","pages":"470-480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandra Boateng, Vaughn W. M. Watson, Joel Berends, Dominic Hateka
{"title":"“I would love for teachers to teach in a way that relates to my culture”: African immigrant youth composing digital collages","authors":"Sandra Boateng, Vaughn W. M. Watson, Joel Berends, Dominic Hateka","doi":"10.1002/jaal.1366","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaal.1366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We share digital collages composed by youth in Lit Diaspora, a community-based after-school literacy initiative involving Black African immigrant youth and adult collaborators, as one contemporary example of rendering visible the contours of the educational lives of African immigrant youth, among the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. We do so amid anti-Black, anti-immigrant discourse and policy in schools, workplaces, and society in the U.S. and globally. Thus, in framing our inquiry, we examine how educators and researchers, attending to the varied diaspora digital literacies and educational experiences of African immigrant youth: talk back to deficit narratives of their lived schooling experiences; navigate literacy learning across contexts of families and elders; demonstrate social and civic literacies that extend youth's identities; and affirm cultural and embodied knowledge, language, and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47621,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy","volume":"68 2","pages":"129-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaal.1366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141770286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}