Option 1: Ethnography of Community
Literacy corresponds to a sociocultural approach from which learning to read and write goes beyond cognitive skills and includes social practices that allow it to make sense within a specific social context. One of the main challenges of any English reading skills class is that students tend to look up, or even insist, to look up, any words they do not understand. While this desire to understand everything is certainly commendable, it can be detrimental in the long run. This is because students will start to get tired of reading if they constantly interrupt the process of finding another word in the dictionary.
Literacy considers that this is not enough and that reading and writing are used in specific contexts for specific purposes, in a society with power relations.
This sociocultural approach to reading and writing is protected by the theoretical current known as new literacy studies, which emphasizes literacy as a social practice that transcends written symbols. In this way, it analyzes these literacy practices in different political, social, and cultural contexts, among others. Usually, these investigations are given from an ethnographic point of view.
Basics of literacy
From new literacy studies, two key related concepts are addressed.
On the one hand, there are literacy (or writing) events, defined as all the events in daily life in which the written word plays an important role. That is, activities such as reading a sign or filling out a form can be a literacy event.
However, to be part of a literacy event you need to know a series of conventions and rules that are implied in this event.
These include literacy practices (or writing), which refer to those social and cultural conventions that bring about literacy events and give meaning to the event. These practices are the invisible or hidden parts behind the event that can be observed.
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I think I need to find more info about this topic because I think I really have what to find about it. And my info needs to be more clear and specific
For the reference, I actually used an old book I had from my school in Albania but for the final essay, I will use the internet as well.
