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This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts.

Table of Contents
1. Literacy and pedagogy: three views; 2. Genre knowledge and socioliteracies: what readers and writers may share; 3. Genres and social forces: homely and academic texts; 4. Discourse communities/communities of practice: membership, conflict and diversity; 5. Our special roles: literacy practitioners as campus mediators and researchers; 6. Students as researchers: investigating texts, processes and contexts; 7. The socioliterate classroom: basic tenets and goals; 8. Putting tenets and goals into practice: using portfolios in literacy classrooms; 9. Conclusion.

Text Role and Context

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6/13/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521567619
      978-0521567619
      ISBN-10 0521567610
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      Language learning for specific purposes

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts.

      Table of Contents
      1. Literacy and pedagogy: three views; 2. Genre knowledge and socioliteracies: what readers and writers may share; 3. Genres and social forces: homely and academic texts; 4. Discourse communities/communities of practice: membership, conflict and diversity; 5. Our special roles: literacy practitioners as campus mediators and researchers; 6. Students as researchers: investigating texts, processes and contexts; 7. The socioliterate classroom: basic tenets and goals; 8. Putting tenets and goals into practice: using portfolios in literacy classrooms; 9. Conclusion.

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