Guest Editorial: New Literacies in Language Education

The transition from text-based interactions to a multi-modal environment has changed the traditional concept of literacy from the ability to write and read to the new literacies variously called ‘multiliteracies’ (Gee, 1992), ‘multimedia literacy’ (New London Group, 1996), ‘technological literacies’ (Lankshear et al., 1997),‘silicon literacies’ (Snyder, 1997), ‘electronic literacy’ (Warschauer, 1999), ‘technoliteracy’ (Erben, 1999), ‘new literacy/literacies’(Salaberry, 2000), ‘multiple literacies’ (Kellner, 2002), ‘electracy’(Ulmer, 2003), ‘online literacy’ (Snyder & Beavis, 2004), digital literacy (Dudeney et al., 2013), and Computer-Assisted LanguageLearning (CALL) literacy (Tafazoli, 2014, 2020).