Learning language learning literacy

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Learning language learning literacy

• EDBT5117 Primary English 1
• Week 2

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Placing the topic

• Last week notions of literacies as a
  repertoire of capabilities Lo Bianco and
  Freebody 1997
• This acknowledges the multiplicity of ways of
  being literate in our society
• This week looking at the emergence of spoken
  language as a lead in to written, visual,
  multimodal literacies

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Literacy as social practice

• The child is socialized into certain ways of
  being in the world, ways intimately connected to
  the sociocultural identity of the childs group.
  Gee 1992
• Cultural groups people like us
• This is not a deficit model but a political model
  of literacy

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Oral language

• The beginning of communication
• In a context
• In social relationships

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How language develops

• Generally by the time children are six years of
  age they have mastered the major structures of
  the language they are learning, but they continue
  to modify and develop their language in many ways
  after they commence school.
• What has taken place before school?

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Learning a first language

• Various theories
• Skinner
• Chomsky
• Halliday
• Cambourne

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Skinner

• 1950s American psychologist
• Behaviourist theory of language acquisition
• Stimulus response (following Pavlov)
• Child learns by copying others
• Intuitive appeal but flawed when children make up
  their own models.
• Id like to propose a piece of bread

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Chomsky

• 1960s American linguist
• nativist theory of language acquisition
• The black box model on learning

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Halliday

• 1970s Australian linguist
• Interactionist theory of language development
• Language development driven by purpose and
  meaning function
• Functional model of language or what can we do
  with it?

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Cambourne

• 1980s Australian
• Conditional theory of language acquisition -
  Immersion Demonstration Engagement Expectation
  Responsibility Use Approximation Response
• Very popular in classrooms

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The syllabus version of literacy

• Literacy - the ability to read and use written
  information and to write appropriately in a range
  of contexts. It is used to develop knowledge and
  understanding, to achieve personal growth and to
  function effectively in our society. Literacy
  involves the integration of speaking, listening
  and critical thinking with reading and writing.
  DET 1991

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Emergent literacy

• Prior to school most children know?

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Real world information
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The sounds of everyday language
And rhymes and stories that create a link with
learning to read
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Print in the environment
Environmental print function more than form
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How to pretend to be a reader
Book knowledge prediction cultural experience
learning to be a reader
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Text conveys meaning
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Language development at home

• Spontaneous talk at home arises from activity
  which gives it contextual focus and meaning
• Learning to talk is about learning to make
  meaning
• children talk about things which interest them
  and try to increase their understanding
• Adults help them to add a pebble to the pile

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Leading into school literacies

• If Children create their literacy in contexts
  where literacy is a meaningful event for them
  where they see people participating in literacy
  for real purposes and with enjoyment where
  people are prepared to discuss their literacy
  activities where there are opportunities for
  children to participate in literacy where
  child-initiated literacy behaviour is welcomed by
  adults and where childrens literate efforts are
  treated seriously.

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Then interacting with books

• Read
• Enjoy
• Talk
• Question discuss interpret - predict
• Open up the situation to the child making links
  to the real world and extending beyond
• -ve limits of labelling and what the?

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The importance of literary texts
What texts teach is a process of discovery for
readers, not a program of instruction for
teachers. Meek 1988 p19-20