Linguistic literacy is applying personal knowledge of how language works in order to decipher unfamiliar linguistic spaces. The more linguistically literate an individual is, the more effectively he or she can communicate within these spaces. Games often present unfamiliar language that must be deciphered.<\/p>\n

Kathy A. Mills in Doing Digital Composition on the Social Web: Knowledge Processes in Literacy Learning<\/em><\/a>, explains that “[i]n increasingly digitally-dependent societies, reading and writing in personal and public life requires exponential shifts in new knowledge of media, modes, genres, and ways of working with texts.” Video games can teach us important linguistic literacies useful in everyday life (check out The Importance of Language).<\/a><\/p>\n

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