This matrix was elaborated by: Valeria Blanco Pinto-37191001 Julian Olarte Gallego-37191020

1. Facultad en Ciencias de la Educación
Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras.
Literacies and English Language Teaching.
Valeria Blanco Pinto & Julian H. Olarte Gallego.
WHAT IS IT? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
TRADICIONAL
LITERACY.
● It's the ability of reading and writing in a variety of contexts.
● It’s static and impersonal.
● It uses print material and text.
● It was part of a closed system.
● Content- centered approach.
● Traditional materials: Documentaries, Picture books, Magazines. Tv shows.
● Students developed reading and
writing comprehension.
● Textbooks are still a tool in classes.
● Tradicional literacy helps to build
vocabulary and recall information.
NEW LITERACIES.
● Understanding of literacies as social and cultural practices that are continuously changing.
● It’s a new set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
● It’s moving and experimental.
● It’s part of an open system.
● It's constantly changing.
● Literacies-focused approach.
● It uses digital literacies: Multimodal short films, web pages and shows, digital stories, and
mash up texts.
● With new literacies students construct
their own meaning.
● Information isn’t limited because there
is the Internet and new technologies .
● More skills are developed than just
writing and reading such as: listening
and speaking.
Three phases of globalization:
1. First languages - The important thing for people was to show the particular differences of each
language and each person.
Three phases of globalization and the
dimension of literacy:
Knowing what happened before helps us to
have an overview of how we can act as teachers
to continue implementing these literacies in our

2. GLOBALIZATION
& LITERACIES
FOR WORK,
CITIZENSHIP AND
EVERYDAY LIFE.
2. Starting to write - Priority was given to homogenizing people and their languages
3. Digital literacy - Returned to the prioritization of differences and added the use of technologies to
benefit interculturality.
The three dimensions of literacy:
1. Literacies for work - In the past people needed minimal levels of literacy skills to do basic jobs, they
just had to be disciplined and obedient. Today workers must have multiple literacy skills
2. Literacies forcitizenship- Citizens used tomake standardizations where socialsimilarity and cultural
homogeneity were appreciated Today, citizens must be capable of appreciating difference, being
inclusive and respectful and open to other cultures.
3. Literacies for everyday life -
Before: newspaper, radio etc (unidirectional): People just read and understand information.
Today: websites, forums etc. (multidirectional): People differentiate between true and useful
information, read and write information to share.
classrooms.
Understanding the way in which humans have
evolved and have acquired values and skills that
our ancestors did nothave helps us toknow how
we can further exploit our abilities to contribute
to a society.
TIPS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING:
As pre-service teachers, we consider that it is important to take into account some aspects related to the new literacies at the time of teaching our classes, among which we highlight 3:
1. Make use of new literacy strategies - students learn more if they design their own learning materials. when they design their own learning materials, they should turn to resources
that provide them with information, think about how they want to design their own materials, use their creativity, use the new language, etc.
2. Pay more attention to multimodalities - the design of creative materials such as infographics, posters, advertisements etc. can be very useful for students to make use of colors,
shapes, typography, drawing, images and all this strengthens their ability to think and their autonomy.
3. Be less egocentric - perhaps we teachers tend to think that since we are the ones in front of the classroom we should be the ones doing the teaching and that everyone should pay
attention to us. But the reality is that it should not be like that, as teachers we are in charge of helping our students to learn, not forcing them to listen to us and do what we say, everyone
has their own identity, their own skills and convictions and freedom in the classroom can make them much more skilled and mentally agile and even motivate them to continue learning
on their own.
REFERENCES:
- Pilgrim, J., & Martinez, E. (2013). Defining Literacy in the 21st Century: A Guide to Terminology and Skills. Texas journal of literacy education, 1(1), 60-69.
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1110822.pdf
- Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2016). Literacies (YouTube channel). University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.