Literacy and literacy practices : Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00121304" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121304 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1060374321000047" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1060374321000047</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2021.100792" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jslw.2021.100792</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Literacy and literacy practices : Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy
Original language description
Recent migration towards Europe is characterized by the massive presence of adults whose educational paths have been interrupted and who are thus developing literacy for the first time in a new language. A literacy test elaborated at the University of Palermo, Italy, showed that, on a sample of 774 migrants, about 30 percent could not read and/or write short words. This test assessed the learners’ abilities to read and write, whether in the Roman alphabet or in other writing systems, and whether in Italian or in other languages of learners’ repertoires. These learners with emergent literacy mostly came from sub-Saharan Africa, an area characterized by diverse forms of multilingualism, and are representatives of “connected migrants” due to the centrality of digital communication practices in their migration experience; hence, the importance of research on such communication practices. This study examined the multilingual writing on Facebook of 10 migrants in Italy with emergent literacy. Findings demonstrate that these learners engage in multilingual practices which enhance their literacy competence by adopting strategies reflecting the general process of acquisition in naturalistic contexts. However, emerging writing on Facebook does not reflect participants’ interlanguage and literacy levels elicited through the test.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Second Language Writing
ISSN
1060-3743
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
51
Issue of the periodical within the volume
March 2021
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
000632849300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102083915