Digital, Hybrid, and Multilingual Literacies in Early Childhood

In for early this teaching literacy article, and we development learning discuss the based and latest its on implications research socioculin early literacy development and its implications for teaching and lea ning based on sociocultural approaches to language, culture, and literacy. Building upon previous work on the sociocultural influence in early childhood literacy (Razfar & Gutierrez, 2003), our objective is to provide practitioners with a synthesis of developments in this new millennium and their implications for the question: what counts as literacy in early childhood? This is particularly relevant since, arguably, no ten-year period in human history has seen such rapid growth and change in information technology, digital media, online gaming, and children's access to them.