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Viewpoints on Literacy
The Skills Approach
Literacy is;
Ability to decode symbols on a page into sounds
Writing = ability to spell, and write grammar sentencse correctly
Reading = Saying words in a page
Skills key to Literacy
Phonis
Fluency
Phonemic Awereness
Vocabulary and text comprehension
Its assessment of Success is;
Standarized
Decomposed
Descontextualized
It can decreased development of language and thinking skills
The Sociocultural Literacy Approach
allows the posibility of different types of literacies or multiliteracies
and suggests that reading and writing are not autonomous or independent
approaches"discourse" as an idea
that includes things that can not be taught
such as
listening
interacting
ways of talking
believing
valuing
feeling
Minirity children have a different discourse
to that of the dominant ones
focused on the needs of language minorities students
may lead to cultural assimilation of minority immigrants
Local literacies are
practices thta identify with local and regiona lcultures
The Construction of Meaning Approach
Has a "constructivist" view to literacy
Relevant to bi and multilingual classrooms
Reading and Writing are
Construction and reconstruction of meaning
that depends of the reader's
Experiences and histories
Understanding of text's tone and themes
Culture
Social context
Language(s)
Students from different backgrounds
can have different interpretations of a text
that can affect the construction of meaning
Minority children can have problems when
when trying to understand a text from a different culture
The Critical Literacy Approach
literacy can be concived as a way
in which schools and education centers
produce hegemony in society
Correct language is determinated by
the ones in power and dominance
Minorities are taught that
thier patterns of speech and writing are inferior or / and deficient
Postmodernist view
meaning is socially constructed
meaning changes through negotiation and recunstruction
minorities' meaning is valuable
it can be a tool for empowerment of people who are oppressed
At School levels
language minority students
must have the chance to
interpret and evaluate texts critically