Peggy Hartwick
Carleton University
May 26th, 2014
Today’s objectives
• Dissecting Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Online class prep – May 28th
• Quiz review part of online class (June 2nd )
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Personal Learning Responses
Group project proposal feedback
Have you looked at new schedule?
Have you looked at updated group project handout?
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Chapter 5: Language policy & planning
“…language planning from a critical perspective means asking why and in whose interests decisions about language(s) are made”
(Hall et al., 2011, p. 118)
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Check this out https://www.proenglish.org/
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With a classmate or in a small group:
Look at the definition by Robert Cooper (1989) on …show more content…
Are health and education services limited in these 2 cases?
1. Health prevention sites http://www.cbcf.org http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/quit-cesser/ index-eng.php 2. Elementary Education sites http://www.ocdsb.ca
Bill 101
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Charter_of_the_French_Language#Language_of_instructi
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdISL9piqzc
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Thoughts about LP & P
• What connections can you make to some earlier topics like bilingualism, equality, dominance, language policy, key populations, income levels, immigration?
Chapter 6: Literacy
(language, learning and education)
Imagine your life without reading and writing.
What does it mean to be literate?
What are different modalities/ tools/ functions that assume literacy?
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Field of Literacy today:
• Multiple domains
• Literacy related to gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, class, language background
• Evolving definition (movement away from modalityspecific, such as writing, to underlying competence and multi-modal) Defining Literacy
• More than just reading and writing
• What are some different types of literacy?
• What do you suppose the difference b/w digital