Master deck

Question 1

What is literacy?

Answer 1

A collection of learned behaviours and social practices that underpin how we judge the ability of ourselves and others to perform any task involving reading and writing, and yet that often remain a largely unrecognized element of the task.

Question 2

Can you put ‘literacy’ in your own words?

Answer 2

Literacy is a collection of skills (hard and soft, measurable and immeasurable) associated with the ability to read or write within a social or cultural context.

Question 3

What are some of the types of literacy?

Answer 3

Mathematical, consumer, financial, media, music, environmental, cultural, digital.

Question 4

What is EAP?

Answer 4

English for Academic Purposes

Question 5

What is ESL vs EAL?

Answer 5

English as a second language vs. English as an additional language.

Question 6

What is ESP?

Answer 6

English for Specific Purposes

Question 7

How old is the earliest writing?

Answer 7

From 3200 BC, the Kish Tablet in Sumeria.

Question 8

What are some potential influences on literacy levels?

Answer 8

Gender, ethnicity, socioeconomics, home language background, and workplace or professional background.

Question 9

What was one of the most influential literacy studies?

Answer 9

International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)

Question 10

What were the main results of the IALS study?

Answer 10

1. A strong correlation between literacy and occupation level and stability.
2. Literacy began to be seen on a spectrum.
3. Literacy was divided into levels 1-5.

Question 11

What are two of the cognitive approaches to mapping literacy?

Answer 11

Mapping eye movement and autonomous approach

Question 12

What are the differences between ideological approach vs. autonomous approach?

Answer 12

The autonomous approach is imposes western conceptions of literacy on to other cultures or within a country those of one class or cultural group onto others. The alternative, ideological model of literacy, offers a more culturally sensitive view of literacy practices as they vary from one context to another.

Question 13

What is the CTESL?

Answer 13

The CTESL program prepares you to teach English as a second language (TESL) for adult learners.

Question 14

What is the only officially bilingual province?

Answer 14

New Brunswick

Question 15

What are some of the unofficial minority languages are spoken in Canada?

Answer 15

Punjabi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, Tagalog, and Dutch.

Question 16

Which provinces have legislation that recognizes and protects Indigenous languages?

Answer 16

Nunavut, NWT, and Yukon

Question 17

When was the Official Languages Act enacted?

Answer 17

1969, updated in 1988

Question 18

What is language policy and planning?

Answer 18

Deliberate attempt to create policies that influence the behaviour of others with respect to language use

Question 19

What are some focuses of language planning?

Answer 19

Language as a problem, language as a right, and language as a resource

Question 20

What is the difference between language planning and language policy?

Answer 20

Language policy means the legal measures intended to regulate language use.

Language planning is the implementation of these policies: goals, strategies, evaluating progress, and outcomes.