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Contrary to conventional understandings of home and school as mutually exclusive domains, this chapter presents a view of teenagers’ English literacy as a complex configuration of practices which often cannot be easily disaggregated into separable school and home practices. In addressing the complex nature of teenagers’ literacy practices in English, in the first half of the chapter, I discuss their informal literacy practices making the journey from home to school and occurring within and around classrooms. In the second half, I discuss their school-related literacy practices taking place in or “colonising” their private time and space. In the last part of the chapter I also discuss how the two domains of home and school are verbally contrasted by teenagers themselves.
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Rothoni, A. (2019). Connected or Mismatched? The Complex Relationship Between Home and School Literacy. In: Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33592-2_7
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