‘We throw away our books’: Students’ reading practices and identities

Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Cathy O'Shea, Sioux McKenna, Carol ThomsonAbstractThe aim of this research was to understand university students' self-reported reading practices. The students attended the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, a historically black institution in a rural and under-resourced setting. A framework of New Literacy Studies (NLS) was used to understand students' self-reported reading practices and the links between these and their identities. Tools provided by Gee, 2005, Gee, 2011 were applied to conduct a CDA of focus group discussions. In the 'We Blacks' Discourse, interviewees 'othered' the idea of reading as not being culturally valued. It was closely allied to the 'Resistance to Reading'...

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