Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Shifting perspectives on literacy
Literacy and issues in language education: major themes
Overview of the book
PART ONE
1Notions of literacy
Principles of a sociocognitive view of literacy
Shifting paradigms in language teaching
Multiple perspectives on literacy
Conclusion
2: Communication, literacy, and language learning
Conduits, containers, and communication
An alternative metaphor: design of meaning
Available Designs: resources for making meaning
Conclusion
3: Available Designs in literacy
Linguistic resources
Schematic resources
Conclusion
PART TWO
4Reading as design
Reading as a dynamic rhetorical process
Reading as a social and individual process
Design and reading
Reading in a non-native language
Reading and teaching reading across cultural contexts
Conclusion
5: Teaching reading as design
Four curricular components
Situated practice (immersion)
Overt instruction
Critical framing
Transformed practice
Putting it all together: an outline of an integrative lesson
Conclusion
6: Writing as design
Writing in a non-native language
Three orientations to teaching writing
Conclusion
7: Teaching writing as design
Situated practice (immersion)
Overt instruction
Critical framing
Transformed practice
A sample teaching sequence
Conclusion
PART THREE
8Computers, language, and literacy
Reading and writing; with computers
Social interaction via computers
Conclusion
9: Evaluating learners' performance
The interpretive nature of assessment and evaluation
Three desiderata for literacy-based assessment and evaluation
Rethinking the assessment and evaluation of reading and writing
Conclusion
10: Rethinking language and literacy teaching
Goals of a literacy-based curriculum
Roles of teachers and learners
Potential obstacles to implementing a literacy-based curriculum
Implications for teacher education
Implications for research
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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This book posits literacy as an organizing principle for foreign language education. By Richard Kern. Part of the Oxford Applied Linguistics series.