Development and demonstration of metalinguistic awareness in adult ESL learners with emergent literacy

The Smartphone as a Personal Cognitive Artifact Supporting Participation in Interaction

“…In their new home countries, they face the need to acquire a new language and engage in new kinds of literacy practices at the same time. Studies investigating how these individuals navigate the complex demands of various interactions in classrooms and beyond in their L2 are only beginning to emerge (Bigelow & King, 2014; Bigelow et al., 2017; Gonzalves, 2020; Hellermann, 2018a, 2018b; Hellermann & Harris, 2015; King, Bigelow, & Hirsi, 2017; Pettitt, 2017). The few existing studies analyzing the use of technology by adult L2 learners with emerging literacy has indicated the omnipresence and importance of mobile phones for their literacy practices (see Artamonova & Androutsopoulos, 2020; Pettit, 2017).…”