Language and Literacies

Language and Literacies

Selected Papers from the annual Meeting of the British Association for applied Linguistics held at the University of Manchester, September 1998
Teresa O'Brien (editor)


Introduction: The pluralism of literacy IV
1 National Literacy Strategy: A debate - Jill Bourne, Gunther Kress, Brian Street, Alison Sealey 1
2 Literacy and Oracy Assessment in an Early Years Intervention Project - Sheena Gardner, Pauline Rea-Dickins 14
3 The Role of Social Class and Home Literacy Practices in Literacy Proficiency in a Group of Chilean Adolescents - John Gibbons, Elizabeth Lascar, Maria Isabel Mizon Morales 26
4 'How Many Bumps does a Dromedary Have?': Literacies in the EFL classroom - Paula Kalaja, Anne Pitkanen-Huhta 43
5 Critical Literacy as Classroom Interaction - Catherine Wallace 58
6 Authoring in Student Academic Writing: Regulation and desire - Theresa Lillis 73
7 Teresa O'Brien Contrastive Rhetoric: New research avenues - Ulla Connor 88
8 The 1998 Reform of German Orthography - Sally Johnson 101
9 Women's Literacy in a Rural Pakistani Community - Shirin Zubair 114
10 Issues for a Working Agenda in Literacy - Gunther Kress 126
11 Label Literacy: Factors affecting the understanding and assessment of baby food labels - Guy Cook, Kieran O'Halloran 145
Contributors 157