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Social Insurance No.:

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Instructor:

Section E01.0

Scheduled Final Exam

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Enrollment:

35

C. Rodriauez

Office:

TBA

Tel: 291-3395

Fax:

291-3203

E-mail:

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Semester

1998

Session: Fall Semester

EDUC 342 - 3 Contemporary Approaches to Literacy

ST:Title ?

Instruction

PREREQUISITE

Corequisite: Educ 341

COURSE DESCRIPTION

OBJECTIVES

• To reflect on the literacy theory studied in Education 341 and its application to the field of literacy instruction.

• To reflect on historical, economic, social and political realities and their relationship to literacy/illiteracy issues.

• To arrive at a critical understanding of the development of different approaches to adult literacy instruction.

• To survey current approaches to literacy instruction.

TOPICS

• Literacy/ illiteracy issues: review of the theory, application to literacy instruction

• The purposes of literacy instruction, the role of the instructor

• The adult literacy learner

• An historical overview of literacy instruction: the "bottom-up" approach, language experience,

whole language, Freirian education, popular education

• The reading process, the writing process

OBJECTIVES

REQUIREMENTS

READINGS

ISBN ?

Author

Publisher

Title

REQ

REC

0-7718-8698-5 ?

Cameron, Joyce

BC Ministry of

Advanced Education

A Guide for Tutoring Adult Literacy

Students

and Job Training

0-7726-0689-7

BC Ministry of

Adult Basic Literacy Curriculum

11]

El

Advanced Education

Guide and Resource Book

L.....J

and Job Training

0-7718-8865-1 ?

Thomas, Audrey

Advanced

BC Ministry

Education

of

Exemplary

Programs and

Adult

Innovative

Literacy

Iji

and Job Traininq

Practices in Canada

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0-7718-9116-4

0-7718-9056-7

0-88336-556-1

0-7718-9423-6

S

Davies, P. & McQuaid, A. College of New

Caledonia

Kennedy, K & Roeder, S. New Readers Press

Rodriguez, Carmen

Theme-Units

Fundamental Level English

I X I

[J

Whole

Literacy

Language

Instructionand

Adult

[] Eli

1L1

Using Language Experience with

Adults: A Guide for Teachers

Community-

Educating for

Based

Change:/

ElI

Student-Centred Literacy

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F-1

F

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