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EML 433 Lecture 11 A
Literature and Critical Literacy - Part A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is discourse? | A socially accepted association among ways of using language. Ways of thinking, feeling, believing and acting used to identify as a group. |
| Why do teachers need to understand their own discourse? | In order to effectively modify the curriculum to improve student's opportunities to learn. |
| What are the features of discourse? (6) | Participants, language, values & beliefs, events & activities, rewards and sanctions, texts. |
| What is needed for teachers to seek employment in Australia's less populated regions? | Incentives. |
| What happens if home-based practices are ignored in the classroom? | Children cannot feel they belong. |
| Beyond 'is our instruction successful' what should we be asking of ourselves? | What roles, practices and dispositions are we building? |
| How did the four resources model evolve? (3) | Responsive approach, growth approach, cultural heritage approach. |
| What does the four resources model provide? (2) | A vocabulary and balanced framework for assessing, describing and sequencing behaviours. |
| What are the 4 roles of a reader? | Code braker, text participant, text user, text analyst. |
| Typically what roles does reading instruction usually focus on? | Text participant and meaning maker. |
| In which two ways do people learn? | Acquisition- subconscious knowledge (meaning maker & text analyst) Learning - conscious knowledge (code breaker & text user). |
| What does a code breaker need to be able to do? | Break the codes of texts, recognising and using the fundamental features of written texts. |
| What does a meaning maker/text participant need to be able to do? | Participate in the meanings of text through understanding and composing texts that connect meaning to knowledge. |
| What does a text user need to be able to do? | Use texts functionally and knowing and acting on the social and cultural functions texts provide. |
| What does a text analyst need to be able to do? | Critically understand and transform texts. |
| What does explicit teaching lead to? | Equitable distribution of resources to allow students to analyse social fields and reposition themselves. |
| How has the four resources model been applied? (3) | Through reaffirming & challenging practices, understanding to what extent programs work, explicit teaching leading to equitable teaching. |