What Works in the Classroom? Promoting Literacy Practices in English

Authors

  • Ambigapathy Pandian

Abstract

Today, learners study and connect with one another across classrooms, community and countryborders in new and exciting ways. The growth of global languages, specifically the worldwidespread of the English language in social, workplace and everyday communication demandsradical transformation in the classroom. The first part of the paper presents some key findings ofEnglish literacy practices. The discussion gives a rather disturbing picture that literacy is stilllearnt as a set of skills and not as a social practice connected to various domains andcommunities of practices in the real world. The second part of the paper unveils the recent shiftsin thinking about literacy in general and specifically about learning in the English Language. Thepaper advances the Multiliteracies approach as propounded by the New London Group (1996) asa possible pathway of engaging the real world. This approach is supported by sample activities

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Published

2011-10-03

Issue

Vol. 11 (2006)

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