Language and Literacy Flashcards
Genre
Refer to particular text types
3 levels of comprehension
Level 1- literal
Level 2- inferential
Level 3- evaluative
Critical literacy
Examine texts & interactions how they shape values, attitudes and beliefs
Making students successful readers and extending on their reading practices
Authority in texts
It’s reliability as a witness to the authors intentions. These intentions could be initial medial or final
Classroom oracy
The ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech
Exploratory talk
Sort out your own thoughts
Closed questions
Teacher knows answer
Open questions
It is a genuine question
Rhetorical questions
Not a question
Discourse
Identify kit, set of instructions to make us recognisable to people
Field
What is being talked about
Example = cooking
Mode
Is it accompanying action or all of the action, what form does it take (spoken or written)
Eg. written prepared (recipe)
Tenor
People involved in communication & relationship between them
Text participant role
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
Social construction of gender
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