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Direct linkBarton, David – Language and Education, 2012
This paper uses a study of the photo-sharing website Flickr to examine new online spaces for writing. On this site, people write titles and descriptions for their photos, they annotate their photos with semantic tags, they provide profiles of themselves and they comment on other people's photos. In these activities, people are engaging in new…
Descriptors: Semantics, Multilingualism, Internet, Teacher Developed Materials
Peer reviewedBarton, David – Language and Education, 2001
Provides an overview of the field of literacy studies, describing the range of work that has been covered and identifying current unresolved issues as ways of suggesting future directions and showing ways that literacy can be seen as an integral part of language. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Critical Theory, Futures (of Society), Language Research
Peer reviewedBarton, David – Language and Education, 1994
Discusses globalization and diversification within four language issues for adult literacy: (1) the spread of a small number of world languages, (2) development of the varieties of language, (3) choice of language for education and official life, and (4) disappearing languages. (JP)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries
