Literacy and Language Teaching (Oxford Applied Linguistics) - Tapa blanda

This book posits literacy as an organizing principle for foreign language education. Addressing key research findings in cognitive theory, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, and literacy studies. The book attempts to put literary, cultural, linguistic, and cognitive theory on a productive parity with classroom practice. Written for teachers as well as language researchers, the book provides a heuristic framework for teaching reading and writing as highly interrelated acts of communication, at all levels of language study. (2000-08-29)

This book discusses the need for foreign language programmes to teach literacy. It suggests approaches to curriculum development using a wide range of modern media texts such as newspapers, music videos, and film as a basis for cultural analysis.