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Mora, Raúl A. – Online Submission, 2011
This keynote address will discuss the findings and implications stemming from a study of what literacy means for a group of 12 teachers and teacher educators. It will also discuss the factors that have caused the ongoing evolution of these ideas about literacy. Relying on the idea of a "permeable literacy continuum," which uses five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, English Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Castleton, Geraldine – 1997
Workplace literacy has been a recent addition to the field of literacy education and research, achieving a level of "commonsense" acceptability so that its meaning(s) or constructions have largely gone unchallenged. A study, therefore, explored the concepts of "work,""workers," and "literacy," not so much to…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries