1. Multiliteracies
... what counts for literacy, will also have to change. Recently as educators have become aware of these changing social and economic imperatives, the emphasis in literary circles has shifted from a narrow focus on "English" and academic literary, to the boarder notion of "multiliteracy". According to the New London Group (1996, p. 63) "multiliteracy is the multimodal activity in which oral, written ... that reflect more directly the complexity of our thinking and the interrelatedness of ideas." (Nelson, 1992) In this way, hypertext is positive and liberating, perhaps encouraging more crea...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate