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Author: Vivi |
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Date Posted: 09:25:15 09/12/10 Sun Critical Literacy is the ability to read texts in a reflective way in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. Working with critical literacy is the role of Portuguese, Geography, History, literature among other subject teachers. They create the student’s ability to understand and “comprehend” the news they read on papers, magazines, by the internet an even those information they receive from TV. Students may have a critical view of novels they read as well as interviews or political speeches they watch. According to Heather Coffey IN HER ARTICLE Critical Literacy, teachers who facilitate the development of critical literacy encourage students to interrogate societal issues and institutions like family, poverty, education, inequity and inequality in order to critique the structure that serve as norms as well as to demonstrate how these norms are not experienced by all members of society. In Brazil English teachers from public schools don’t put CL in practice because of the lack of resources provided by those schools. They tend to be more engaged in teaching students how to communicate in English using grammar, verbs, vocabulary and expressions in order to construct knowledge. They focus only on conversations among peers and only reading texts from text books, where ideas from a culturally dominant group are prevalent. In this way students are not prepared to see beyond what is written in texts, articles advertisements, and the like. Second language teachers engaged in critical literacy serve as facilitators of conversations that question traditional power relations. Using pedagogical methods English teachers can create space for discussion of many relevant issues for instance lyrics from popular songs can be used as supplementary texts in order to engage students in discussions about race, gender, religion, politics and ect. Another tool can be advertisements, where a large number of contexts are implicit on their messages and images. Comic books are also very helpful to develop critical sense in the classroom, because they use many expressions, to mean an objective as well as the pictures. Comics also provide readers, especially children and adolescents real situations they face daily. Movies, citicoms, interviews and the internet play an important role in the society and should be more explored in the context of a classroom bringing a critical sense. Teachers have a great amount of tools to develop critical literacy in their students. If, it were developed in an English class more frequently those youngsters could understand better not only their country but they could interpret the power relations among the whole world and in the future try to change it. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |