Hanenda’s perspective on multiple literacies is very interesting. It correlates nicely with Stubbs and Baker. Hanenda discusses multiple forms of literacy and multiple ways of children expressing themselves. Multiple literacies can come in the form of artistic expression, diaries, and via technology: for example chat rooms, instant messenger, e-mailing, text messaging, blogs, cyber-simulated worlds, etc. “Based on the accounts provided by Lam (2000) and Yi (2005), it can be tentatively said that, outside school, adolescent ELLs strategically and agentively use literacy for their own personal purposes to express their personal feelings and opinions, seek and exchange information, maintain and develop social relations, construct desirable identities for themselves, act as language brokers for the family, and improve their English.” Hanenda poses the issue of incorporating out of school literacy with literacy in the classroom.
I think that technology can be a great solution to the problem of making ELL students literate. Keeping any type of online journal can be exciting and captivating for students. Assignments that incorporate ‘at-home literacies’ can be a great resource to bring into the classroom. The ultimate goal of literacy education is for students to become literate and teachers must try many different venues to achieve that goal.
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