TY - JOUR
T1 - Across four nations
T2 - Comparing the discourses of adolescents' digital literacy
AU - Rao, Dingxin
AU - Lee, Changhee
AU - Fdilat, Youssef
AU - Bouziane, Abdelmajid
AU - Dressman, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Literacy Association.
PY - 2024/9/1
Y1 - 2024/9/1
N2 - In this study, we investigated media reports and literacy research in four nations—China, Morocco, the Republic of (South) Korea, and the United States—about the relationship between adolescents' literacy and use of digital media, or digital literacy. We present short “snapshots” of adolescents' digital literacy in each country and then compare these to findings in a report about adolescent literacy and uses of digital media published by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Our analysis indicates significant variation across countries in both literate traditions and adolescents' access to digital media, and notes that these interact to create unique conditions for adolescents' digital literacy in each country, even as, across the four nations, adolescents' capacity to innovate and solve problems with digital access seems constant. In conclusion, we are cautious about making global claims about the state of adolescents' literacy worldwide but point to important findings about how the use of the internet in schools seems to have a positive impact on reading performance and offer some implications for classroom practice.
AB - In this study, we investigated media reports and literacy research in four nations—China, Morocco, the Republic of (South) Korea, and the United States—about the relationship between adolescents' literacy and use of digital media, or digital literacy. We present short “snapshots” of adolescents' digital literacy in each country and then compare these to findings in a report about adolescent literacy and uses of digital media published by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Our analysis indicates significant variation across countries in both literate traditions and adolescents' access to digital media, and notes that these interact to create unique conditions for adolescents' digital literacy in each country, even as, across the four nations, adolescents' capacity to innovate and solve problems with digital access seems constant. In conclusion, we are cautious about making global claims about the state of adolescents' literacy worldwide but point to important findings about how the use of the internet in schools seems to have a positive impact on reading performance and offer some implications for classroom practice.
KW - instructional practices and methods
KW - multilingual/bilingual contexts
KW - reading
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U2 - 10.1002/jaal.1338
DO - 10.1002/jaal.1338
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85187420139
SN - 1081-3004
VL - 68
SP - 94
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
JF - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
IS - 2
ER -