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1. Literacy in the lives of adolescents
By Hong Rao

2. Introduction of the interviewee
 Age: 17
 Gender : male
 Grade: 11
 Family background:
a middle class family with
his mother being a
teacher and his father a
businessman; only child
of his family
 Illness: OCD
 Hobby: music and
basketball
 Academic level: low
 Literacy level:
intermediate
 Nationality: Chinese
 First language: Chinese
 Foreign language:
English

3. The record of the interview
 Question 1:
 In what kinds of
literacy activities do
you participate on a
regular basis?
 Read news
 Chat with friends
 Send short
messages
 Finish the
assignments by
teachers

4. The record of the interview
 Question 2:
 What inspires or
motivates you to read
and/ or write?
 Have fun
 Prepare for tests
 Have a good
relationship with
others

5. The record of the interview
 Question 3:
 What literacy
challenges do you
face?
 Read very slowly
 Have difficulty
understanding the
writing tasks
 Spend long time to
organize the article

6. The record of the interview
 Question 4:
 What strategies do
you use to help
overcome these
challenges?
 Read the key words
 Guess the meaning of
the difficult words
 Write without specific
plan

7. The record of the interview
 Question 5:
 What literacy tools do
you enjoy on a
regular basis, and
why?
 Micro blog
to share with others
interesting things
 Internet library
to download electric
books and read
conveniently
 Wechat
News with sound
 QQ, Facebook

8. The interviewee’s literacy
development
 Communicate with
friends fluently
 Read interesting
stories or news online
 Share his own stories
or interesting things
online
 Have difficulty in
reading academic
articles and writing
critically
 Have difficulty in
learning other
subjects

9. Essential skills needed for the
interviewee’s ongoing development
 Basic literacy skills
A) More difficult
vocabularies
 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

10. Literacy skills that the interviewee
possesses
 Basic literacy skills
A) pronounce correctly
B) spell the basic words
C) Write the correct
sentences with basic
grammars
D) Read simple articles
 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
 Discipline literacy skills:
inadequate

11. Literacy instructions to motivate the
interviewee
 Share his online
readings and findings
with others in public or
through Wechat,
microblog or other
social network
 Inform him some
websites with more
difficult and relevant
articles and let him read
and share
 Make a plan for
learning vocabularies,
encouraging him to
write something with
the new words to share
with others
 Model him the writing
styles and make him
practise
 Instruct him to scan and
read in limited time

12. Insights from the learning materials
 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
 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
 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
 Biancarosa, G. (2012). Adolescent
literacy: More than remediation.
Educational Leadership, 69(6), 22–27.
 Cushman, K. (2003). Fires in the
bathroom: Advice for teachers from high
school students. New York: New Press.