This course opens with an exploration of the social context and aims of literacy teaching and learning. It goes on to describe a range of historical and contemporary approaches to literacy pedagogy, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course takes has a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to expand the definition of literacy to encompass today's multimodal communications, and the diversity of literacies across different social and culltural contexts. A Multiliteracies approach also suggests a broad range of activity types—experiential, conceptual, analytical and critical.
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Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies
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Approx. 16 hours to complete
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Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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Beginner Level
Approx. 16 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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6 hours to complete
The Aims of Literacy
This module explores the notion of "literacies" in the plural, and in particular the concept of "Multiliteracies" coined by the presenters in this course as part of the New London Group. Literacy in the singular consists of the rigid rules of official standard languages, and is purely grounded in written text. Literacies in the plural, or multiliteracies, acknowledges that language use will vary greatly from one cultural and social context to another, and that contemporary communication is increasingly multimodal, where written text is juxtaposed with, or supplemented by, image, sound, space, object, gesture, and speech. The module goes on to explore the evolution of human communication, and the patterns of communication in today's work, public, and community settings.
6 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 50 min), 14 readings, 3 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Theory and Practice of Literacies Learning and Teaching
In this module, we discuss the nature of pedagogy as the conscious design of learning activities. We introduce the idea of "knowledge processes" or activity types: experiential, conceptual, critical, and applied. In the case of literacies learning, experiential knowledge processes involve immersion in familiar and new texts. Conceptual knowledge processes include naming of the features of text, and developing theories of how these texts work to serve meaningful purposes. Analytical knowledge processes explore the contexts and purposes of texts. Applied knowledge processes engage learners in the creation of texts.
2 hours to complete
5 videos (Total 30 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
4 hours to complete
Didactic + Authentic Approaches to Literacy
This module begins with an overview of the range of activity types that might be found in literacies pedagogy. These are illustrated with some examples of literacies learning modules. It goes on to examine two major models of literacy pedagogy: didactic and authentic.
4 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 59 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Functional + Critical Approaches to Literacy
Now we explore the remaining two of the four major traditions in literacy teaching and learning: functional and critical approaches to literacy. Our purpose in introducing these four major approaches has been to explore the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, as well as to advocate for the idea that literacy teaching and learning ideally involves a repertoire of different kinds of pedagogical moves or activity types.
4 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 42 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM LITERACY TEACHING AND LEARNING: AIMS, APPROACHES AND PEDAGOGIES
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Excellelent course to learn it opened my mind,filled the empty gaps of my brain with complete and necessary information about education(teaching and learning)
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Thank you for giving me this great opportunity to know more about the literacy world as well as various ways of teaching and learning
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