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Literacy Practices of Tamil Youth in Singapore

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  • Rather than viewing literacy as an autonomous set of skills of reading and writing, this paper takes the perspective that literacy is a set of socially situated practices that is shaped by prior experience (Schwab, 2018). Barton (2007) categorises three main stages of these socially situated practices for individuals to be emergent, school and out-of-school literacy

  • School literacy is built on the level of expertise a child has obtained at home; they do not function separately as an institution that teaches literacy alone

  • The opportunities and materials that parents present to their children aid strongly in their literacy skills

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Introduction

Rather than viewing literacy as an autonomous set of skills of reading and writing, this paper takes the perspective that literacy is a set of socially situated practices that is shaped by prior experience (Schwab, 2018). Barton (2007) categorises three main stages of these socially situated practices for individuals to be emergent, school and out-of-school literacy (referred to as youth literacy in this paper). Rather than viewing literacy as an autonomous set of skills of reading and writing, this paper takes the perspective that literacy is a set of socially situated practices that is shaped by prior experience (Schwab, 2018). Barton (2007) categorises three main stages of these socially situated practices for individuals to be emergent, school and out-of-school literacy (referred to as youth literacy in this paper). School literacy is built on the level of expertise a child has obtained at home; they do not function separately as an institution that teaches literacy alone. Character, various essential skills are learnt in schools, along with reading and writing. School literacy is truly a success only when what is learnt at school is translated and merged with the literacy events that take place at home. The youth literacy is literacy that is mainly taught for economic purposes and acquired through out-of-class activities

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