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Social Insurance No.:

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Instructor:

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Semester

1998

Session: Summer Session

Rodriguez

EDUC 342 - 3 Contemporary Approaches to Literacy

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Instruction

Office:

TBA

Tel: 3395

Fax:

291-3203

E-mail:

Section D01.0

Scheduled Final Exam

YIN:

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Enrollment:

35

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

OBJECTIVES

REQUIREMENTS

READINGS

ISBN

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Author

Publisher

0-7718-8698-5 ?

Cameron, Joyce

BC Ministry of

Advanced Education

and Job Training

0-7726-0689-7

BC Ministry of

Advanced Education

and Job Training

0-7718-8865-1

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Thomas, Audrey

BC Ministry of

Advanced Education

and Job Traininq

Title ? REQ REC

A Guide for Tutoring Adult Literacy

Students ?

LII

Adult Basic Literacy Curriculum ?

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Guide and Resource Book

Exemplary Adult Literacy ?

x

Programs and Innovative

Practices in Canada

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0-88336-556-1

0-7718-9423-6

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

Caledonia

Kennedy, K & Roeder, S. New Readers Press

Rodriguez, Carmen

Theme-Units

Fundamenta Level English

[J U

Whole Language and Adult

Literacy Instruction

I1L1

Using Language Experience with

Adults: A Guide for Teachers

Community-

Educating for

Based

Change:/

LII

Student-Centred Literacy

0-7718-9116-4

0-7718-9056-7

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Book Order Comments

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