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Download full textCoutinho, Colin – Online Submission, 2008
This paper will review the article entitled, "Shopping {For} Power: How Adult Literacy Learners Negotiate" [EJ756994] by authors Julie L. Ozanne, Natalie Ross Adkins, and Jennifer A. Sandlin. The authors argue that functional literacy in the United States is an important issue and needs to play a larger role in adult literacy programs.…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Adult Literacy, Interviews, Observation
Peer reviewedTurner, Myrna Gwen – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1996
Discusses the issue of literacy as a gate keeper and how the interviewee's own experiences as a bilingual Latina and writing teacher aroused her interest in sociocultural understandings of literacy and language learning. She emphasizes the importance of discourse-based analysis and discusses the issue of high urban mobility as well as her other…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Functional Literacy
