Essay Plan

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Essay Plan

• Dana Jarrett

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Introduction

• 'We learn to do literacy as we learn how to
  behave and belong in our families and
  communities' (Breen et al. 1994). 
• Relationship between discourse communities,
  socio-cultural approaches to learning and context
  of schooling.

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Discourse Communities

• groups of people who share the same beliefs and
  values, which are reflected to a certain extent
  in heir various meaning-making systems. (Love
  et al, 2001, scrns.13-19).
• Can be primary or secondary (Gee, 1991).

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Discourse Communities

• Insiders and outsiders
• Examples
• Musical discourse
• Sporting discourse
• Semi quaver, phrasing, treble clef, score,
  arpeggio etc.
• Cricket, runs, wicket, duck, pitch, slips,
  silly-mid-off, leg spinner etc.

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Socio-cultural approaches

• Vygotskys Zone of Proximal Development.
• Halliday, protolanguge and adult language.
• Halliday language as a flexible resource
• Use of language to make meaning.

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Language and learning

• Text types
• Genres
• Language choices
• Appropriateness of language choice
• Text structure
• Textual integrity

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Examples

• children should be seen and not heard
• Cultural differences
• Contexts
• Where we live
• Our discourse communities
• The situation
• Different ways of learning

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In the context of schooling

• Scaffolding
• Relationship to zone of proximal development
• Modelling
• Teaching learning cycle
• Engagement
• building knowledge
• Transformation
• Presentation
• reflection

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Other important stuff that I dont know where it
will fit in

• The impact of field, tenor and mode as said in
  Cusworth.
• Apprenticeship, guided participation and
  participatory appropriation Knobel
• Language tool of tools (Vygotsky, 1987)

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Conclusion

• Whatever we do we are leaning language without
  knowing it.
• Going to the shops
• Talking on the phone
• Writing a letter

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Resource List

• Love, K et al, 2001, Built, CD-ROM, The
  University of Melbourne, scrns 25 and glossary.
• Gee, J 1991, What is Literacy?, in Rewriting
  Literacy, C, Mitchell K. Weiler (eds), Beigin
  Ganey, New York.
• Knobel, M 1999, Jacques, in Everyday
  Literacies, Peter Lang, New York, p.121.