Literacy and Language Teaching

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ISBN: 9780194421621 | 0194421627
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/12/2000

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This book discusses the need for foreign language programs to teach literacy. It suggests approaches to curriculum development using a wide range of modern media texts such as newspapers, music videos, and film as a basis for cultural analysis.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Shifting perspectives on literacy
Literacy and issues in language education: major themes
Overview of the book

Notions of literacy
Principles of a sociocognitive view of literacy
Shifting paradigms in language teaching
Multiple perspectives on literacy
Conclusion
Communication, literacy, and language learning
Conduits, containers, and communication
An alternative metaphor: design of meaning
Available Designs: resources for making meaning
Conclusion
Available Designs in literacy
Linguistic resources
Schematic resources
Conclusion

Reading as design
Reading as a dynamic rhetorical process
Reading as a social and individual process
Design and reading
Reading in a non-native language
Reading and teaching reading across cultural contexts
Conclusion
Teaching reading as design
Four curricular components
Situated practice (immersion)
Overt instruction
Critical framing
Transformed practice
Putting it all together: an outline of an integrative lesson
Conclusion
Writing as design
Writing in a non-native language
Three orientations to teaching writing
Conclusion
Teaching writing as design
Situated practice (immersion)
Overt instruction
Critical framing
Transformed practice
A sample teaching sequence
Conclusion

Computers, language, and literacy
Reading and writing
with computers
Social interaction via computers
Conclusion
Evaluating learners' performance
The interpretive nature of assessment and evaluation
Three desiderata for literacy-based assessment and evaluation
Rethinking the assessment and evaluation of reading and writing
Conclusion
Rethinking language and literacy teaching
Goals of a literacy-based curriculum
Roles of teachers and learners
Potential obstacles to implementing a literacy-based curriculum
Implications for teacher education
Implications for research
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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