Abstract
This paper reported on a post doctoral research which explored the literacy
practices of teenagers, who lived in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The
research participants, from two families, were girls and boys aged fourteen
having Punjabi as their first language. The academic literacy practices associated
with teaching/learning in their schools are in English and Urdu, so, the focus of
this study had been on out-of-school literacies and language choices. The data
had been collected by means of observations and semi-structured interviews. The
findings of the research were as follows: The teenagers were frequently engaged
in varied multi-modal literacy practices, on and off-line, on paper and on screen.
They included: (1.) reading internet websites and postings by friends on
Facebook; (2.) reading The Quran, newspapers and magazines off-line; (3.)
writing emails and updating their own postings on Facebook; (4.) texting via
mobile phones. The research had also shown that English language was being
used more frequently, in different types of literacy practices, as compared to
Urdu and Punjabi. The research was informed by social practice view of literacy
that has been developed within the New Literacy Studies tradition and by recent
research on the ethnography of digital literacy.
Fakhira Riaz. (2018) Language and Literacy on and off-line: A Case Study with Multilingual Teenagers in Pakistan, The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Volume-26, Issue-2.
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