ABSTRACT
Towards the end of the 20th century, new forms of text emerged, largely driven by digital technologies and globalisation. The New London Group, a collection of influential literacy experts, coined the term multiliteracies to recognise that traditional language-based texts were being complemented by multimodal forms that required the creator and reader to process language, image, moving image, audio etc., frequently in a single text. The New London Group moved thinking about literacy from a focus on books and writing and the skills associated with them to a view of ‘multiliteracies’. New literacy studies views literacy as something practised every day in homes, communities, schools and workplaces, including formal and informal texts: For example, sticky notes, records of goods checked into a warehouse, drawings made by parents for their children, messages on social media, online petitions to government, letters to insurance companies.
