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Digital literacy in disciplines

Literature review on digital tools incorporated in teaching practices for L2 learning might suggest that refreshing ideas have been used to boost literacy development in L2 and about C2. However, these learning experiences seem to be focused on providing primarily opportunities for developing pragmatic, cultural, and linguistic knowledge of vernacular digital communication and interaction (Chun & Wade, 2003; Reinhardt & Thorne, 2011; Guth & Helm, 2011; Sykes & Holden, 2011). Therefore, It might be fruitful to explore what has been done in terms of digital literacies (Reinhardt & Thorne, 2011) for disciplinary education.

A framework for teaching writing in higher education from a genre studies scholarship will be used to explore any interplay between digital literacies and disciplinary education. Since the author is particularly interested in exploring and envisioning literacy development in the engineering field, this web-paper aims at exploring journal articles that address on the implementation of digital tools for engineering students. Ultimately, this paper will propose general features of a course aiming at educating on digital literacies for engineering students to participate critically and wisely through disciplinary digital communities in nowadays global communication. The course design will rely on the analysis of the journal articles. 

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Work cited

Chun, D., & Wade, E. R. (2003). Collaborative cultural exchanges with asynchronous CMC. Teaching with technology, 220-247.

Guth, S., & Helm, F. (2011). Teaching culture through CALL. Present and future promises of CALL: From theory and research to new directions in language teaching, 211-256.

Jiménez Caicedo, J. P., & Gómez, R. L. (2014). Agency and Web 2.0 in Language Learning: a Systematic analysis of elementary Spanish Learners’ attitudes, Beliefs, and motivations about the Use of. Digital Literacies in Foreign and Second Language Education, 87.

Reinhardt, J., & Thorne, S. (2011). Beyond comparisons: Frameworks for developing digital L2 literacies. Present and future promises of CALL: From theory and research to new directions in language teaching, 257-280.

Sykes, J. & Holden, C. (2011). Communities: Exploring digital games and social networking. In L. Ducate and N. Arnold, CALICO Monograph 2011, 311-336.