An Abductive Research Paradigm for Second Language Learners’ Digital Literacies (Poster 5)

• In Event: Advancing Digital Literacies Research Through Critical Collaborative Conversations

Abstract

In this poster, we aim to advance an abductive approach as a guiding theory of discovery to conducting research in digital literacies by asking what it means to be literate for language learners across sociocultural, cross-continental, and ecological spaces in digitally connected multilingual spaces. We illustrate this human-centered distributed approach to understanding the dynamic relationship between language, human development, and digital technologies by identifying gaps in previous research from the deductive and inductive orientations on second-language digital literacies and by foregrounding emergent research in relation to languaging, translanguaging, and design in a multi-leveled evolving landscape of digital literacies.

Authors

• Dongping Zheng, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

• Guofang Li, University of British Columbia