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JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY
Volume 57, Issue 6, Pages 472-482Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jaal.273
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Adult; Instructional strategies, teaching strategies; Information and communication technologies; Qualitative; Purpose; Interest; Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.); Audience; Ethnography; New literacies; Sociocultural
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This study explored how adults used a self-selected online forum to advance their own and others' literacy practices. The study was a discourse-centered online ethnography using triangulated methods, including analysis of list archives, semi-structured and informal interviews, and document collection. These data were analyzed by discourse analysis and thematic analysis. Findings illustrate how participants in a global electronic forum used electronic texts, forums, and textual practices to share digital and print resources and promote digital literacies. This study advances a theory of adult literacy practice as socially and culturally embedded and provides implications for adult literacy education.
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