Understanding and Teaching Literacy: A Deep Dive

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Literacy, as a concept, has been evolving during the last few decades, presenting itself as a more complex term to comprehend. The deeper understanding of this notion has made the process of learning it, a bigger and more elaborate challenge.
“We can distinguish between being able to read and write (which is the ability to decode and encode text), and being literate, which is the ability to critically evaluate and to act upon knowledge and experience” (Corden, 2000. P. 39). The concept of Literacy also comprehends the ability to adequate one’s speech, either oral or written, to the situation, to the task representation, and to the potential receiver of it.
The way that a teacher understands writing and reading, …show more content…

Although the process of acquiring this extremely intricate tool might seem challenging , and a very arduous skill to master, in my opinion, this also allows the user to be able to have access to other processes and experiences, that will contribute to his or her integral development in a socialized …show more content…

During my entire vocational training, I have seen a lot of students simplified this consideration, understanding that teaching literacy, and the adequation of speech only means to create tasks and exposed students to real situations, where they have to use their own resources to communicate effectively, without expliciting the rules of the language, identifying and analyzing those specific decisions that they are taking, and the reasons of it. I disagree profoundly.
“Language learning is a process of developing new resources for meaning-making, and language learners need opportunities for participation in meaningful activities and interaction supported by consciousness-raising and explicit attention to language itself in all its complexity and variability” (Schleppegrell, 2013.

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