Transnational Literacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23738320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Skerrett (0000-0001-8130-2016, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20269 |
| OpenAlex | W4416918270 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Transnationalism refers to the phenomenon in which people live their lives across two or more nation‐states. In the field of literacy, scholarship has focused on transnational literacies, or the meaning‐making and communication practices transnational people engage to participate in life across their multiple homelands. This article focuses on the writing, digital literacy, and music literacy practices that transnational people use for, and develop through, participating in transnational life. In relation to writing, the article describes how transnational people write for diverse purposes including creative, academic, economic, and political reasons; and how they compose in multiple genres such as letters, songs, and multimodal texts. Digital literacies are described in terms of how they facilitate transnational people's relational ties, communication practices, including multilingual communications, and transnational identities. Transnational music literacy practices are discussed in terms of how they foster transnational identities, and their possibilities for generating new or hybrid cultural forms and critical consciousness. The article concludes by calling for research in understudied yet important areas of transnational literacies. These include research into the formal literacy educational experiences of transnational students and literacy research on transnationalism that is framed by critical theoretical perspectives.
Digital Literacy · Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Literacy · Phenomenon · Politics · Scholarship · Transnationalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |