The Frameworks Of New Literacy Studies ( Nls ),...

Theoretical Frameworks I am going to theorize my study in the frameworks of New Literacy Studies (NLS), multimodality, and sociocultural identities theory. NLS looks at literacy learning in the 21st century as a social and cultural phenomenon; multimodality uses a variety of modes such as visual, audio, and spatial representations to achieve the purpose of meaning making; sociocultural identities theory focuses identity construction in social contexts where individuals interact with the social world such as their literacy activities of reading and writing in various social and cultural contexts; I will briefly introduce each individual theory and explain how they are going to connect with and help theorize this study. New Literacy Studies (NLS). The New London Group (1996) has broadened our understanding of being literate from â€Å"learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms for the national language† (p. 61) to incorporating multimodal methods such as textual, visual, audio, gestural to make meaning out of the social and cultural context. NLS perceives literacy learning as a social and cultural practice that should be understood and studied in a variety of contexts, including cognitive, social, cultural, historical, and institutional (Gee, 2009). The perspective of literacy as a social practice â€Å"seeks to shed light upon how students’ cultures, contexts, and histories are embedded within their literacy learning. Moreover, a social perspective of literacy