Text, Role and Context

by Ann M. Johns

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521567610
• ISBN13: 9780521567619
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"