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The exploration of New York City high school students’ global literacy

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Purpose – When facing greater demands in the international job market and the innovative
development and use of technologies, the youth needs a new set of skills and attitudes to succeed in an
increasing well-educated global workforce. It is essential that educators prepare high school students’
global literacy. In this paper, the authors survey high school students in New York City (NYC) to learn
about their global literacy levels and to summarize results and interpret implications for educators.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors adopted a global literacy instrument to survey 2,157
high school students. They adopted an independent sample t-test and an ANOVA to identify significant
differences regarding demographic features on the Likert-scale items, used cross-tab analysis to present
the profile of participants, and used the Pearson correlation coefficient to explore the degree of
association between factors.
Findings – From this global literacy scale, NYChigh school students have relatively strong awareness
of the importance of comprehending and appreciating cross-culture perspectives, have strong
confidence in using new literacies to resolve problems, but have relatively low willingness to become a
global citizen.
Practical implications – The findings of the study support the need to improve education quality,
to strengthen world languages programs, and to advocate “new literacies” practices in classrooms.
Originality/value – The paper surveys high school students to learn about their global literacy levels,
and to investigate factors associated with the formation of their global literacy. Most importantly, the
paper adds the concept new literacies into the component of the global literacy definition to reflect the
influence of technology on the high school students’ global awareness.

Keywords Cross-cultural studies, Globalization, Literacy, Education, United States of America

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Multicultural Education & Technology Journal

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: Emerald Group., 2010

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Multicultural Education & Technology Journal Vol. 4 No. 1, 2010 pp. 43-67

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