Text, role, and context : developing academic literacies
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Text, role, and context : developing academic literacies
(The Cambridge applied linguistics series / series editors, Michael H. Long and Jack C. Richards)
[Lightning Souce UK Ltd.], [2010]
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Note
Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge University Press , 1997
"Transferred to digital printing 2004" --T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central to socioliteracy, the concepts "genre" and "discourse community," are presented in detail. The author argues for roles for literacy practitioners in which they and their students conduct research and are involved in joint pedagogical endeavors. The final chapters are devoted to outlining how the views presented can be applied to a variety of classroom texts. Core curricular design principles are outlined, and three types of portfolio-based academic literacy classrooms are described.
Table of Contents
- 1. Literacy and pedagogy: three views
- 2. Genre knowledge and socioliteracies: what readers and writers may share
- 3. Genres and social forces: homely and academic texts
- 4. Discourse communities/communities of practice: membership, conflict and diversity
- 5. Our special roles: literacy practitioners as campus mediators and researchers
- 6. Students as researchers: investigating texts, processes and contexts
- 7. The socioliterate classroom: basic tenets and goals
- 8. Putting tenets and goals into practice: using portfolios in literacy classrooms
- 9. Conclusion.
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