Abstract

VARGAS FRANCO, Alfonso. Critical Literacy and Digital Literacies: A Necessary Relationship?. Folios [online]. 2015, n.42, pp.139-160. ISSN 0123-4870.

In this paper it is argued that critical literacy is required by digital literacy (critical reading) as a sine qua non condition in order to build meaning of written culture. This text aims to help to establish the theoretical framework to understand the new dimensions of critical literacy in the instruction of contemporary practices given through the digital technologies. In the current national state examination (ICFES, Saber 11), a new component: Critical Reading was analyzed. Sample questions were chosen in order to determine if critical reading strategies are applied or if the known strategies belonging to the dominating linguistics and psycholinguistic assumptions are still assumed in the reading comprehension instruction. The results of the analysis allow us to conclude that these latter perspectives are still being adopted in these types of examinations.

Keywords : Critical literacy; critical reading; digital literacies; training critical readers; information society.

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