These essays guide teachers to understanding and acknowledging the complexities of today's college students and offer real world solutions. With the varied approaches and purposes of the chapters, diversity -- much like in the real world -- here is broadly defined and not neatly categorized. All of the contributors are from San Diego State University, a place whose work on linked communities is well known. These diverse contributors have written about their own lives, work, and experiences inside the classroom.
These essays guide teachers to understanding and acknowledging the complexities of today's college students and offer real world solutions. With the v...
This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central to socioliteracy, the concepts "genre" and "discourse community," are presented in detail. The author argues for roles for literacy practitioners in which they and their students conduct research and are involved in joint pedagogical endeavors. The final chapters are devoted to...
This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief hi...
For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the state of the art for practitioners in applied linguistics, ESL/EFL pedagogies, rhetoric, and composition studies around the world. Unlike volumes that present one theoretical stance, this book attempts to give equal time to all theoretical and pedagogical camps. Included are chapters by authors from the Sydney School, the New Rhetoric, and English for Specific Purposes, as well as contributions from other...
For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volu...
Diane D. Belcher Ann M. Johns Brian Richard Paltridge
Studying language, discourses, and contexts of useas well as student needs, in the broadest senseand then applying these findings to the pedagogical practices, is what distinguishes ESP from other branches of applied linguistics and language teaching. The fundamental arguments in this volume are that ESP researchers must use all of the tools available to systematically assess the needs, identities, and issues faced by learners and the language and discourses of their contextsas well as the frames brought to the context by the researchers themselves. In addition, ESP researchers must...
Studying language, discourses, and contexts of useas well as student needs, in the broadest senseand then applying these findings to the pedago...