Literacy today is very much a social skill that requires the ability to operate a broad range of social and cultural representations. These representations take on added meanings with information and communication technologies that surround us today.

The focus will be on identifying the range of multiliteracies accessible to learners and the specific skills needed to understand their potency. Teachers will be shown how the specific outcomes stated in the English Language Syllabus can be attained by looking at multiliteracies.

Skills and strategies needed to achieve the learning outcomes will be discussed against this background.

The session will demonstrate how reading and writing lessons can be integrated with other semiotic systems (drama, popular-culture media, visual art) and communication technologies to teach students both language and the critical skills that they will need to be equipped with to access and use the new literacies.