Framing Languages and Literacies: Socially Situated Views and Perspectives

by Margaret R. Hawkins (Editor)

Overview

In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and constellations of concepts; each has been taken up across diverse global contexts and is used as rationale and guide for the design of research and of educational policies and practices. Authors discuss the genesis and historical trajectory of the approach with which they are associated; offer their unique perspectives, rationales, and engagements; and investigate implications for understanding language and literacy use in and out of schools. The premise of the book is that understanding concepts, perspectives, and approaches requires knowing the context in which they were created, the rationale or purpose in creating them, and how they have been taken up and applied in communities of practice. Accessible yet theoretically rich, this volume is indispensible for researchers, students, and professionals across the fields of language and literacy studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135093181
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/12/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Margaret R. Hawkins is Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and in the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction Part 1: Languages and Literacies 2. BICS and CALP: Empirical Support, Theoretical Status, and Policy Implications of a Controversial Distinction 3. Systemic Functional Linguistics 4. Discourses In and Out of School 5. A Postcolonial Perspective in Applied Linguistics: Situating English and the Vernaculars Part 2: Literacies and Languages 6. "Multiliteracies": New Literacies, New Learning 7. Regrounding Critical Literacy: Representation, Facts and Reality 8. Biliteracy Continua 9. Indigenous Literacies: Continuum or Divide? 10. Digital Literacies