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- 1. Literacy in the lives of adolescents By Hong Rao
- 2. Introduction of the interviewee ß Age: 17 ß Gender : male ß Grade: 11 ß Family background: a middle class family with his mother being a teacher and his father a businessman; only child of his family ß Illness: OCD ß Hobby: music and basketball ß Academic level: low ß Literacy level: intermediate ß Nationality: Chinese ß First language: Chinese ß Foreign language: English
- 3. The record of the interview ß Question 1: ß In what kinds of literacy activities do you participate on a regular basis? ß Read news ß Chat with friends ß Send short messages ß Finish the assignments by teachers
- 4. The record of the interview ß Question 2: ß What inspires or motivates you to read and/ or write? ß Have fun ß Prepare for tests ß Have a good relationship with others
- 5. The record of the interview ß Question 3: ß What literacy challenges do you face? ß Read very slowly ß Have difficulty understanding the writing tasks ß Spend long time to organize the article
- 6. The record of the interview ß Question 4: ß What strategies do you use to help overcome these challenges? ß Read the key words ß Guess the meaning of the difficult words ß Write without specific plan
- 7. The record of the interview ß Question 5: ß What literacy tools do you enjoy on a regular basis, and why? ß Micro blog to share with others interesting things ß Internet library to download electric books and read conveniently ß Wechat News with sound ß QQ, Facebook
- 8. The interviewee’s literacy development ß Communicate with friends fluently ß Read interesting stories or news online ß Share his own stories or interesting things online ß Have difficulty in reading academic articles and writing critically ß Have difficulty in learning other subjects
- 9. Literacy skills that the interviewee possesses ß Basic literacy skills A) pronounce correctly B) spell the basic words C) Write the correct sentences with basic grammars D) Read simple articles ß Generic literacy skills A) Read the key words B) Guess the meaning of the words according to the content C) Write a passage including several paragraphs ß Discipline literacy skills: inadequate
- 10. Essential skills needed for the interviewee’s ongoing development ß Basic literacy skills A) More difficult vocabularies ß Generic literacy skills A) complex sentence patterns B) Structure of a writing passage C) scanning and skimming the text Discipline literacy skills A) specific writing style of subjects B) specific vocabularies of subjects C) understand the basic concepts of subjects
- 11. Literacy instructions to motivate the interviewee ß Share his online readings and findings with others in public or through Wechat, microblog or other social network ß Inform him some websites with more difficult and relevant articles and let him read and share ß Make a plan for learning vocabularies, encouraging him to write something with the new words to share with others ß Model him the writing styles and make him practise ß Instruct him to scan and read in limited time
- 12. Insights from the learning materials ß Students face increasingly challenging text as they progress through grade, the length of the text , the words and sentences are becoming longer and more complex. The need to synthesize information through across multiple texts and formats increase sharply—( Biancarosa, G., 2012). So we should instruct students to deal with complex text.
- 13. Insights from the learning materials ß Digital reading can increase the amount of reading materials that are available to adolescents and heightened the need for critical thinking (Biancarosa, G., 2012).
- 14. Insights from the learning materials ß Everybody sees written-down things in different ways depending on our own life experiences, and we can learn from each other. Treat our responses as important , whether or not we like something to agree with the experts (Cushman, 2003).
- 15. References ß Biancarosa, G. (2012). Adolescent literacy: More than remediation. Educational Leadership, 69(6), 22–27. ß Cushman, K. (2003). Fires in the bathroom: Advice for teachers from high school students. New York: New Press.