This paper integrates theories and research from the fields of transliteracies and language brokering to understand the language and literacy experiences of bilingual youth who grew up in Mexican immigrant families. Analyzing data from three interrelated studies that used ethnographic research methods to understand the language brokering of…

Tuojiang Haozi, a traditional Chinese folk song from the Tuojiang River Basin in Sichuan Province, China, holds significant cultural value as it originates from the labor chants of boatmen navigating the Tuojiang River. This study explores the literacy preservation and transmission of Tuojiang Haozi amidst rapid modernization and changing…

This study evaluated the effect of using AR technology to develop environmental literacy (RQ1), motivation (RQ2), and perceived cognitive load (RQ3) among high school students. The sample of participants in this study included 155 10th -grade students in general education. They took a semester-long Natural Resource Ecology course. The participants…

Students need "critical data literacy" skills to help make sense of the multitude of information available to them, especially as it relates to high-stakes issues of social justice. The authors describe two curriculum modules they developed--one on income equality, one on immigration--that help students learn to analyze data in order to…

Against the backdrop of the expansion of the literacy curriculum to include multiliteracies in education systems around the world, we discuss how a design-based research approach can contribute to practical outcomes in building the participating teachers' confidence and competence in their pedagogical practices, developing scalable lesson…

Feedback literacy research has largely focussed on learner processes and how teachers can support them. However, a socio-material perspective on feedback as a situated practice foregrounds the interplay between actors, resources, contexts and structures, requiring a repositioning of teachers as entangled with others within practice. This merits…

Purpose: This essay-conversation brings together two literacy scholars who have worked with religious literacies: Suresh Canagarajah and Anne Elrod Whitney. They discuss not only the importance of religious literacies research but also their own experiences conducting such research as people of faith themselves. Design/methodology/approach: The…

This paper aims to contribute to the discussion of a multiliteracies approach to online inquiry reading. After presenting the key principles of this theory, I focus attention on an online platform acknowledged for its learning aims -- TED-Ed -- as an empirical basis for researching the practicability of such an approach. An original lesson…

Huayin Laoqiang is a unique and historically rich Chinese folk music genre from Shaanxi Province, characterized by powerful vocals, rhythmic intensity, and deep storytelling traditions. This study investigates the role of Chinese folk music literacy in transmitting Huayin Laoqiang within contemporary educational contexts. Using a qualitative…

This research aimed to study the traditional Thai medicine knowledge regarding the use of Aloe vera (Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f.) in food preservation, to investigate the effects of Aloe vera extract on coating strawberries, and to explore ways to transmit knowledge about Thai herbs and traditional Thai medicine for sustainable preservation and…

This study examines the ways pre-service English language arts teachers (PSTs) conceptualized activism and experimented with visual and multimodal approaches to composing about activism. Drawing on qualitative methods, we examined 22 PSTs' graphic narratives completed as part of their teacher preparation coursework, and center our discussion on…

Though a limited amount of literature has examined the family literacy practices of students with refugee backgrounds in the United States, little research has focused on play and conversations of Burmese siblings with refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives from new literacy studies, Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, and…

English education stakeholders need ways of envisioning and advocating for transformative approaches to literacy teaching. In this inquiry, we consider the dynamic field of literary studies -- one of the scholarly fields most directly linked to English education. We conducted a content analysis of 404 articles recently published in literary…

The global outbreak of COVID-19 brought an unprecedented influx of official and semiofficial geographic information to individuals worldwide, primarily in the form of geospatial and numerical data. Maps specifically played a key role in the conveying of information and guidelines to the public in relation to the pandemic. Yet to fully understand…

Cultivating diversified and high-quality talents is the mode of cultivating talents in higher quality education. Aiming at the effect of the innovation of dance education system, the authors study the change of its influence on college students' artistic accomplishment under the new media form. Firstly, it analyzes the research status of the…