Lehrende/r: PD Dr. habil. Martina Lampert
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: S Engl. Sprw.
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
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Wartelistenquote: 50%
Inhalt: The importance of literacy as an all-pervasive topic in (Western) societies may be documented by one mouse-click: A Google-search currently yields no less than 73,900,000 hits. Traditionally, literacy has been associated with the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the term focuses on the ‘cultural’ skills reading and writing at a level adequate for communication in a literate society, and illiteracy is seen as a social problem to be solved through education: Literacy Matters--as the title of a website says. So portals for adult and family literacy are available as are programs for infants in elementary schools and students in the (foreign) language classroom, and, ever more importantly, media literacy. This seminar, then, will cover the various dimensions of literacy as well as the interrelationships among them: • linguistic (modality-specific variation in written and spoken language) • cognitive (constructing written language and ‘re’-constructing the text model through reading) • sociocultural (literacy as social practice, authority, and power structures, English literacy in a globalizing world) • developmental (early literacy, acquisition of reading, and constructing the written language system) Looking at literacy from such an interdisciplinary perspective, the class attempts to provide the conceptual foundations upon which literacy curricula and school instruction may be grounded. Study material will be available for individual download in pdf format by the first meeting.
