Children 's digital literacy practices in unequal South African settings

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 738-753

  Lemphane, Polo ^a   Prinsloo, Mastin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

digital media; gaming; language diversity; literacy practices; multimodal semiotics; social inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926180590     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2014.908894     Document Type: Article

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