This study explores one teacher's forays into multiliteracies practices and multimodal pedagogies in teaching a language other than English an international school Hong Kong. Using the Action Learning Circle as guiding framework, this analysed Chinese one-year self-initiated exploration of multimodality with students different proficiency levels. Data analysis is unpacked through interview refl...

Abstract Developed in the 1980s by social anthropologists, education researchers and psychologists, field of research known as (New) Literacy Studies (NLS) has put forward a sociocultural understanding literacy practice. Although NLS’ core assumption about literacy—that it is more than set cognitive abilities—is still valid nowadays was then, new theoretical ideas have been added to their canon...

This paper deals with the concept of informal learning in virtual communities on the Internet. Initially we discuss the need for continuing education and its relation with informal learning. Virtual communities are next defined and then compared to real communities. Case studies are employed, focused on some specific kinds of virtual communities. We examine how they operate, how their members i...