This paper explores a digital literacy practice in the borderland between formal education and leisure where an adult L2 learner and his teacher write text messages to each other. In focus are the participants’ purposes of participating and the discoursal construction of identities that takes place as they interact.
This paper researches a digital literacy practice that takes place in the borderland between an educational domain and the domain of leisure. In the researched digital literacy practice an adult second language (L2) learner and his Swedish for immigrants (SFI) teacher use smartphones for writing text messages to each other. The aim of the paper is to research the student and teacher’s purposes of participating in this digital literacy practice and the discoursal construction of identities (IvaniÄ
