- Title
- Makassar youths use of English in and outside of the school
- Creator
- Khaeruddin
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This thesis explores Makassar adolescents’ daily English uses in and outside of the school. I begin this study with the premise that teenagers have engaged with and used English not only in formal contexts but also in casual ones. The purpose of this study was to ascertain how adolescents use English in their daily lives, both in and outside of school, and to glean further information on their overall understanding of English and its practises. To answer this aims, I used qualitative approach within the ethnographic tradition based on the New Literacy Studies lens and variety of data collection tools such as home and school observations, semi structured interviews and artefact collections. Additionally, to gather more accurate data, I also ask my participants to complete weekly literacy diaries and reflective journals. The analysis process included coding transcripts, documents/artefacts, and field notes related to literacy events, identifying themes, patterns, and analytical categories within the coded data, and analysing visual data. As one of the few ethnographic studies of everyday literacy in English as a foreign language from a social perspective, this study sheds light on the multifaceted character of Makassar adolescents' everyday literacy practises in English. In contrast to conventional views of home and school as mutually exclusive domains, the empirical findings emphasise the tension between school-based and everyday uses of English and essentially present a view of young people's English literacy as a complex configuration of practises that cannot be easily separated into distinct school and home practises. Significantly, the findings suggest that young people's textually sophisticated and interest-driven everyday engagements with English provide them with access to new online community worldwide in which they can express their social and cultural alignments, reaffirm their in-group membership, and enact their identities. The thesis makes the case for rethinking English as a powerful youth resource that can be creatively and purposefully used by young people in their everyday literacy practises to meet their highly personal needs and goals. In other words, as a readily available means of self expression, meaning-making, and communication in socially meaningful ways, all of which are inextricably linked to complex processes of identity work. This perspective may result in a rethinking of English language instruction in Makassar and throughout Indonesia, including a greater emphasis on learners' individual ways with English.
- Subject
- Makassar youths; English literacy; in and outside of the school; adolescents
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452997
- Identifier
- uon:44564
- Rights
- Copyright 2022 Khaeruddin .
- Language
- eng
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