Historical and Theoretical Underpinnings of Multiliteracies and Its Applications (Essay Sample)

Multiliteracies and Multimodalities
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Multiliteracies and Multimodalities
Introduction
Based on multiliteracies views within New Literacies Studies, this study investigates the opportunities and difficulties of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) (NLS). The term "New Literacy Studies" (or simply "NLS") refers to research that started in the 1980s. These works span a variety of disciplines, including pedagogy, history, anthropology, rhetoric and writing, and cultural psychology. The works were written in several theoretical languages that were never merged and came from various academic fields.
Historical development of multiliteracies
NLS was against the conventional psychological approach to literacy at the time. Writing and reading were considered to be mental activities. The NLS believed that literacy should be researched because it is something people do in the real world and society, not only in their minds. Instead of being a spiritual occurrence, literacy was primarily seen as a socio-cultural phenomenon. A social and cultural accomplishment based on social and cultural practices was literacy. It dealt with many ways of social and cultural group participation. Because of this, it has been proposed that literacy be examined holistically in all its contexts and practises, including cognitive, social, cultural, historical, and institutional aspects (Demoiny & Ferraras-Stone, 2018 pp. 2-11).
Psychology at the time believed that reading and writing were primarily mental processes like decoding, information=