IT’S AN ENGLISH WORLD KATHERINE AGUILERA & MATÍAS RIQUELME

LOCAL LITERACIES AND GLOBAL LITERACY CATHERINE WALLACE

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WHAT KIND OF ENGLISH BEST SERVES THE NEEDS OF ITS USERS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?

NEW LITERACY STUDIES Local Literacies  Everyday purposes  Private Domains (family life)  Authentic Identity Global Literacy  Possesed as a skill  Media and education  Standard

PLURALIZATION Ideological  Social construct  Cultural and ideological meanings Autonomous  Skill-based  Educational contexts

AT SCHOOL Descontextualize Re-contextualize

BRIDGES AND DISCOURSES Primary and Secondary Discourses Ways of beign in the world Gee (1990)

LITERATE ENGLISH AND CRITICAL LITERACY WRITTEN TEXT

KEY WORD: ACCESS  Contemporary teaching approach  Literate English: Not standard  Transnational English  While teaching: literate talk  “International auxiliary language”

CRITICAL LITERACY  Critical literacy encourages readers to actively analyze texts and offers strategies for what proponents describe as uncovering underlying messages.

GLOBAL ENGLISH AND THE ELT PROFESSION  CLT (talking) vs Critical literacy (what you talk)

SCHOOL CONTEXT  School settings are necessarily contrived  Cognitive, academic and curricular development.

MCCOMMUNICATION A PROBLEM IN THE FRAME FOR SLA

G L O B A L I Z A T I O N

TASK-BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING (TBLT)

I N T E R A C T I O N H Y P O T H E S I S

F R A M I N G

M C C O M M U N I C A T I O N

GLOBALIZATION & FRAMING Globalization and the constant spread of information Clash of linguistic items between cultures Framing as the reconstruction of a speakers’ speech for understanding it  Understanding experiences through framing: collective subconscious comprehension  Social constructions determine spreaded information and its understanding  We frame not only languages, but also experiences, events, and traditions

REFRAMING COMMUNICATION  Technologization of discourse: when our speech is colonized by unknown methods  Reframing technologization of speech as new strategies towards marketing and capitalism  Use of social media to establish new parameters for discourse in a determined language

MCCOMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION FOR MEANING  McCommunication: what is this?  What is Negotiation for meaning?  SLA connection: sociolinguistic modifications of speech  Social media: McCommunication is the representation of language systems imposed by globalizing tools, like social media networks  McCommunication is also global languages: signs, linguistic units, imagery and tools for global understanding  SLA: all comes from a determined language, the one we are learning

McCommunication UNDERSTANDING THE LANGUAGE NEGOTIATION FOR MEANING TRANSFERING INFORMATION BETWEEN INTERACTION MODIFICATING SPEECH TO MAKE COMMUNICATI ON POSSIBLE LANGUAGE AS A SYSTEM WHICH BECOMES MORE “VISUAL”. NOWADAYS GENERATIONS ESTABLISH CODES RELATED TO IMAGERY MORE THAN THROUGH ALPHABETICALLY CODED MESSAGES COMPREHENSION OF THE ACTUAL MESSAGE, NO MATTER IF THIS HAS BEEN UTTERED THROUGH IMAGES, SOUNDS, OR WORDS, THE INTENTION CAN BE DETECTED AND WITH THIS, THE MESSAGE UNDERSTOOD

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BIBLIOGRAPHY  WALLACE, CATHERINE (2002). LOCAL LITERACIES AND GLOBAL LITERACIES, IN BLOCK, D. AND D. CAMERON (eds.)(2002). GLOBALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING, NEW YORK; ROUTLEDGE.  BLOCK, DAVID (2002). McCOMMUNICATION: A PROBLEM IN THE FRAME OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, IN BLOCK, D.AND D. CAMERON (eds.) (2002). GLOBALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING, NEW YORK; ROUTLEDGE.