Heath’s (1986) article presents the different types of social practices that the students are exposed to at home. Heath (1986) identifies in What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at…
In one class, a teacher might have students who command the teacher’s attention and students who ‘melt into the background,’ and who do not want to be noticed. There are…
Heath (1986) discusses the importance of literacy-related interactions between mainstream parents and preschoolers. Among the literacy events that children are engaged at home even before they join formal schooling are…
What I really appreciate about the four resource model is that it does not discard the knowledge that the teachers have already acquired. What Honan (2004) did in her project…
The article Technological Literacy by Carmen Luke (1997) gives a historical overview of technology, but having in mind that it was written more than 10 years ago, the information is…
The article Reading on the internet: the link between literacy and technology by Elizabeth Schmar-Dobler published in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(1) – available on Reading Online –…
In the article Popular culture, textual practice and identity: literacy and the new technologies in the middle years of schooling by C. Beavis (2000), the author states that with the…
The article Talking about visual texts with students by J. Callow (2003) claims that visual literacy is part of the new literacies and in describing it, a type of metalanguage…
The article Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities by L.D. Roberts, L.M. Smith and C.M. Pollock, published in “Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities” (Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies…
Activity on p. 92 from Pragmatics and Discouse by Joan Cutting. a) Direct directive speech acts: – spoken by others Context: ‘teacher enters the classroom’ – one student…