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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page |
What is Literacy by James Gee |
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Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words |
James Gee defined literacy as a control of secondary use of language. The phrase ‘Acquisition and learning are means to quite different goals, though in our culture we very often confuse these means and thus do not get what we thought and hoped we would’ conveyed a really strong message implying on how the two words show completely different meanings and are thus used as one. When you learn something, you gain knowledge out of what your learned, you know the reason behind what you are in learning and why. On the other hand, acquiring is something you do without any teaching or supervision. It is something you subconsciously expose to and be very eager to do it. “We are better at what at we acquire, but we unconsciously know more about what we learnt.” |
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Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. |
Discourse – a socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or ‘social network’. Acquisition – is a process of acquiring subconsciously by exposure to models and a process of trial and error, without a process of formal teaching. Learning – is a process that involves conscious knowledge gained through teaching, though not necessarily from someone officially designated a teacher. Dominant Literacy – is a control of secondary use of language used in what I called above a ‘dominant discourse’. Powerful Literacy – is a control of secondary use of language used in secondary discourse that can serve as a meta-discourse to critique the primary discourse or other secondary discourse, including dominant discourse. |
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How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research? |
This article connect to Deborah Brandt’s Sponsor of Literacy by talking about literacy and how literacy is used as different kinds. |
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Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. |
