Asian Literacies
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This article is about alphabetic, cultural and technological divides in Asian standards of English. There are forms of Asian Literacy that are inherently different from Western forms of literacy. This article identifies some features of contemporary Asiatic literacies that are historically and culturally at variance from English. The technological revolutions in information that are transforming knowledge-based economies in Asia and the Pacific Rim are impacting on how these literacies operate. Making meaning is a universal human intention, and in that respect people from Asia are no different from any other humans on this planet. The syllabics, writing systems, vocabularies, and grammars that pertain to Cantonese and Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and other languages of Far East Asia are, however, different in nature from the stem of Indo-European languages with which most migrants to Australia are familiar. So what are the implications of Asian literacies for teachers of English? Current technological, cultural and literacy practices in the Far East described in this article show how Far East Asian people approach English, and to explain why literacy testing that has become popular in recent years in Australia, Canada, the US and England is not practiced or relevant to most of Asia. The implications for teachers of English is to widen their understanding of literacy so as to include a richer understanding than one that is limited to definitions of literacy dominated by Western pedagogic, or current testing practices in Australia. Indeed, Asian literacies are by-passing conventional norms of Western literacy and inventing new ones, leaving the educationally orthodox practice of basic skills testing rather as a grammar-oriented vestige of the last century, than as an indicator of new knowledge skills or proficiencies pertinent to intellectual advancement in the knowledge management and information age that this century has heralded.
- 名古屋商科大学の論文
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