Teenagers' Everyday Literacy Practices in English Beyond the Classroom /

• Main Author: Rothoni, Anastasia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Digital media.; English language.; Literacy.; Multilingualism.; Applied linguistics.; Language and education.; Digital/New Media.; English.; Applied Linguistics.; Language Education.

This book examines everyday literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL). Focusing on the out-of-school literacy practices of teenagers in Athens, Greece, it challenges the notion that classrooms are the only contexts which provide exposure to English for learners. The author demonstrates that En...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Theorising and Understanding Young People's Everyday English Literacies
• Chapter 3: Researching Young People's Everyday English Literacies
• Chapter 4: Mapping the Terrain of Teenagers' Everyday English Literacy Practices
• Chapter 5: The Interplay of Global Forms of Popular Culture and New Media in Teenagers' Literacy Practices
• Chapter 6: Peer-Group Membership and Youth Identities in 'Translocal' Activity Spaces
• Chapter 7: Connected or Mismatched? The Complex Relationship Between Home and School Literacy
• Chapter 8: Visual Accounts of Teenagers' Perceptions About Their Language and Literacy Practices
• Chapter 9: Teenagers' Literacy Practices with English Outside School Walls.