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 English can be a powerful resource for teenagers, as a symbolic tool granting them additional means of communication and self-expression. In doing so, she makes an original contribution to the areas of literacy, language education, and applied linguistics.
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.
Anastasia Rothoni is affiliated to the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and also teaches English as a foreign language at secondary school level. Her research interests lie chiefly in the area of young people's language and literacy practices, digital technologies, ethnography, visual methods and multimodality.
