Abstract
Over the last fifty years, literacy and its study have moved considerably beyond the ability solely to read and write; it may be now viewed as a centrally mediating factor to interpret the signs engraved into the texts of our experiences and the fulcrum to participate more fully in our public and our private worlds. Addressing the professional domains of literacy practices, this is a descriptive study designed to investigate bow professionals experience and use literacy skills and literate behaviors in transnational contexts practice.
Using an ethnographic methodology and multi-method strategies, data gathering and analysis of this study are focused on providing a deeper understanding of the patterns of cross-border professional literacy engagements of the regulated U.S. professions in construction and design, business and finance, allied health, and technology and engineering.
The results of the study indicate that across the affinity groupings mentioned above, professionals in transnational contexts of practice operate within at least five categories of literacy engagement: resources, people, information, systems, technology, with literacy skills and literate behaviors being directed principally toward working with people and systems overseas. 7he study alsoyieldeda series of professional practice literacy insights drawn from thematic congruencies across the data sets.
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