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The Social Turn in Language and literacy Studies. New Literacy Studies: the social turn in approaches to literacyThe social turn in Language Studies: CLT, Critiques and new directionsESRC research project on ?EAL and Academic Literacies'; some data taking account of the social turn. New Litera
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1. The Social Turn in Language and Literacy Studies LDC MA lecture on Dec 7thBrian Street
2. The Social Turn in Language and literacy Studies New Literacy Studies: the social turn in approaches to literacy
The social turn in Language Studies: CLT, Critiques and new directions
ESRC research project on ‘EAL and Academic Literacies’; some data taking account of the social turn
3. New Literacy Studies New Literacy Studies has pointed in a strong direction to the argument that the study and the teaching of reading and writing can/ should take into account:
Literacies in social context
Ethnographic perspective
‘literacy events’ and ‘literacy practices’
issues of power and ideology,
immediate pragmatic aspects of social relations as people communicate using literacy.
Examples from projects in India, Ethiopia, Uganda, Brazil etc.,
4. Everyday Literacy practices: use of surfaces in India