Language and Literacy Flashcards

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Genre

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Refer to particular text types

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3 levels of comprehension

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Level 1- literal
Level 2- inferential
Level 3- evaluative

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Critical literacy

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Examine texts & interactions how they shape values, attitudes and beliefs

Making students successful readers and extending on their reading practices

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Authority in texts

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It’s reliability as a witness to the authors intentions. These intentions could be initial medial or final

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5
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Classroom oracy

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The ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech

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Exploratory talk

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Sort out your own thoughts

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Closed questions

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Teacher knows answer

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Open questions

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It is a genuine question

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Rhetorical questions

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Not a question

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Discourse

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Identify kit, set of instructions to make us recognisable to people

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Field

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What is being talked about

Example = cooking

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Mode

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Is it accompanying action or all of the action, what form does it take (spoken or written)
Eg. written prepared (recipe)

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Tenor

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People involved in communication & relationship between them

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Text participant role

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Make connections between the text and ones personal experiences, prior knowledge or understanding of similar texts
- the text participant uses them to have a ‘conversation’ with the author about the text
All about the author

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Social construction of gender

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Social constructions propose that there is no inherent truth to gender ; it is constructed by social expectiond and gender performance

The sociology of gender examined now society influences our understanding and perception of differences between masculinity and femininity

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16
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Multiliteracies

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Term coined in the mid- 1990’s by the new London group and is an approach to literacy theory and pedagogy

This approach highlights 2 key aspects of literacy: linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expression and representation

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Language as a social practice

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A wider definition of literacy takes into account understandings that language is a social practise where teachers construct and maintain particular versions of school- literate classrooms practices

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Literacy as a set of social practices

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Ways of communicating with others that we use in everyday
- a focus that the children can relate to or have experience of
Eg. reading, writing, speaking, listening

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Text analyst role

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Indentify the authors position and purpose for writing the text

  • once the authors intentions are uncovered, The text analyst evaluates how well the author accomplished these goals as well as the possible impact this piece of writing may have on its readers
  • all about the author