Abstract
This chapter provides an overall account of Greek teenagers’ out-of-school engagements with English, including the key motivations, features and characteristics of these engagements. In particular, by presenting, describing and classifying teenagers’ most prominent activities into larger categories and typologies, I pay attention to clarifying the potentially influential role of key parameters such as teenagers’ gender, level of academic achievement and English language proficiency, their preference for print/digital media, language choice and texts involved, among others. Overall, this chapter serves the purpose of putting forward the argument that young teenagers are active users of English outside school walls and of illustrating the important role that English plays in youngsters’ everyday lives today, a point that the rest of the book further strengthens.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Agee, J., & Altarriba, J. (2009). Changing conceptions and uses of computer technologies in the everyday literacy practices of sixth and seventh graders. Research in the Teaching of English, 43(1), 363–396.
Barbee, M. (2013). Extracurricular L2 input in a Japanese EFL context: Exposure, attitudes, and motivation. Second Language Studies, 32(1), 1–58.
Baynham, M., & Masing, H. (2000). Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy practices. In M. Martin-Jones & K. Jones (Eds.), Multilingual literacies (pp. 191–207). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Berns, M., de Bot, K., & Hasebrink, U. (Eds.). (2007). In the presence of English: Media and European youth. New York: Springer.
boyd, d., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 210–230.
Brandt, D. (1998). Sponsors of literacy. College Composition and Communication, 49, 165–185.
Camitta, M. (1993). Vernacular writing: Varieties of literacy among Philadelphia high school students. In B. V. Street (Ed.), Cross-cultural approaches to literacy (pp. 228–246). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carr, D. (2006). Games and gender. In D. Carr, D. Buckingham, A. Burn, & G. Schott (Eds.), Computer games: Text, narrative and play (pp. 162–178). Cambridge: Polity.
Chusanachoti, R. (2009). EFL learning through language activities outside the classroom: A case study of English education students in Thailand (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Kansas, Kansas.
Koutsogiannis, D., & Adampa, V. (2012). Girls, identities and agency in adolescents’ digital literacy practices. Journal of Writing Research, 3(3), 217–247.
Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. London: Routledge.
Leander, K. M., & McKim, K. K. (2003). Tracing the everyday “sitings” of adolescents on the Internet: A strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces. Education, Communication, & Information, 3(2), 211–240.
Lenhart, A. (2012). Teens, smartphones and texting. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project.
Lenhart, A., & Madden, M. (2007). Social networking websites and teens: An overview. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project. Retrieved March 9, 2010 from: http://www.pewinternet.org/2007/01/07/social-networking-websites-and-teens.
Leppänen, S. (2007). Youth language in media contexts: Insights into the functions of English in Finland. World Englishes, 26(2), 149–169.
Leppänen, S., Pitkänen-Huhta, A., Nikula, T., Kytölä, S., Törmäkangas, T., Nissinen, K., et al. (2011). National survey on the English language in Finland: Uses, meanings and attitudes. Helsinki: Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English. Retrieved September 8, 2012 from: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/05.
Leppänen, S., Pitkänen-Huhta, A., Piirainen-Marsh, A., Nikula, T., & Peuronen, S. (2009). Young people’s translocal new media uses: A multiperspective analysis of language choice and heteroglossia. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14(4), 1080–1107.
Linnakylä, A. (2010). Learning English informally through authentic literacy practices: A case study of Finnish 8th grade students (Unpublished pro gradu thesis). University of Jyväskylä.
Livingstone, S., & Bober, M. (2005). UK children go online: Final report of key project findings. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
Moje, E. B. (2000). To be part of the story: The literacy practices of gangsta adolescents. Teachers College Record, 102(3), 651–690.
Morrell, E. (2002). Toward a critical pedagogy of popular culture: Implications for academic and critical literacy development among urban youth. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 46(1), 72–77.
Moss, G. (2007). Literacy and gender: Researching texts, contexts and readers. London: Routledge.
Murray, D. E. (2005). Technologies for second language literacy. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 25, 188–200.
Nikula, T., & Pitkänen-Huhta, A. (2008). Using photographs to access stories of learning English. In P. Kalaja, V. Menezes, & A. M. Barcelos (Eds.), Narratives of learning and teaching EFL (pp. 171–185). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Shashaani, L. (1993). Gender-based differences in attitudes toward computers. Computers & Education, 20, 169–181.
Sieverding, M., & Koch, S. C. (2009). (Self-)Evaluation of computer competence: How gender matters. Computers & Education, 52, 696–701.
Skilton-Sylvester, E. (2002). Literate at home but not at school: A Cambodian girl’s journey from playwright to struggle writer. In G. Y. Hull & K. Schultz (Eds.), School’s out!: Bridging out-of-school literacies with classroom practice (pp. 61–90). New York: Teachers College Press.
Sundqvist, P. (2009). Extramural English matters: Out-of-school English and its impact on Swedish ninth graders’ oral proficiency and vocabulary (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Karlstad University, Karlstadt.
Tan, L. (2011). Adolescent literacies, multimodal textual repertoires, and digital media: Exploring sites of digital literacy practices and learning inside and outside school (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Lancaster University, Lancaster.
Thomas, A. (2007). Youth online: Identity and literacy in the digital age. New York: Peter Lang.
Thurlow, C. (2001). Language and the Internet. In R. Mesthrie & R. Asher (Eds.), The concise encyclopedia of sociolinguistics (pp. 287–289). London: Pergamon.
Trier, J. (2007). “Cool” engagements with YouTube: Part 1. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 50(5), 408–412.
Tsai, M. J., & Tsai, C. C. (2010). Junior high school students’ Internet usage and self-efficacy: A re-examination of the gender gap. Computers & Education, 54, 1182–1192.
Wartella, E. A., Lee, J. H., & Caplovitz, A. G. (2002). Children and interactive media: Research compendium update. Austin: University of Texas at Austin/Markle Foundation.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rothoni, A. (2019). Mapping the Terrain of Teenagers’ Everyday English Literacy Practices. In: Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33592-2_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33592-2_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33591-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-33592-2
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)