Welcome to Language as Social Practise EED112 Essay Cathryn Sommerville 11305393

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• Welcome to Language as Social
  PractiseEED112EssayCathryn Sommerville11305393

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Essay Topic

• Educators come in many forms such as parents,
  family as well as community members.These family
  educators play a major role on shaping attitudes
  values and perceptions. This also includes the
  way in which literacy is acquired.
• This has been acknowledge by Breen et al (1994)
  who has noted that we learn to do literacy as
  we learn to behave and belong in our families and
  communities.

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Essay Themes

• Discourse
• Discourse Communities
• Primary Secondary discourse
• Insiders Outsiders
• Acquisition
• Scaffolding
• Context of Schooling

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Discourse

• A socially accepted association among ways of
  using language, thinking and acting that can be
  used to identify oneself as a member of a
  socially meaningful group of social network
• (Gee 1991, as cited in Mitchell Weiler)

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Discourse Communities

• According to Love, Pidgon, Baker Hammond (2002
  screen 15 part A1) A discourse community refers
  to a group of people who share the beliefs
  values, which reflected to a certain extent in
  their various meaning-making.

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Primary Secondary Discourses

• Gee (cited in Mitchell Weiler1991, p.7) refers
  to primary discourse as the development in the
  primary process of enculturation, as the primary
  discourse
• Gee (cited in Mitchell Weiler 1991) notes that
  having access to secondary institutions, such as
  schools churches offices or businesses. This is
  refers to as secondary discourses.

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Insiders Outsiders

• Love, K Pigdon, K Baker, G Hampston, J. (2002,
  screen 16 Part 1A) state that an outsider refers
  to a person who is unfamiliar or untutored in
  the subject matter and specific vocabulary and
  language patterns.
• An outsider refers to a person who is familiar
  with and tutored in the subject matter of
  specific language patterns and the discourse used
  my others.

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Acqusistion

• Gee (cited in Mitchell Weiler, 1991) explains
  that acquisition is the gaining of knowledge
  without the processes of formal education. It is
  developed through the subconscious and exposure
  within natural atmosphere.

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Scaffolding

• According to Hammond (2001) Scaffolding is a
  process that is designed to provide assistance
  for learners pupils to develop understandings
  which will enable then to finish the task at
  hand.

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Context of Schooling

• Educators implementing the teaching strategy of
  scaffolding help students construct their own
  learning and provide new understandings. At the
  same time however educators need to be mindful of
  the different needs of students within the
  classroom, for scaffolding to be effective.

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Conclusion
Students need to have an environment that is rich
in language and literacy. This will enable
students to acquire skills necessary to empower
them, and to move forward and become insiders.
Through education this will be achieved
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Reference List
Love, K, Pigdon, K Baker, G, with Hamston,
J, 2002, Built building understandings in
literacy and teaching. 2nd edn. CD-ROM.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne. VIC Gee, JP
(1991) WHAT IS LITERACY?, in Mitchell C, Weiler
(eds), Rewriting Literacy, 1991, Beigin Carney,
New York Hammond, J (ed) (2001) Scaffolding
teaching and learning in language and literacy
education. Primary English Teaching Association
Newtown N.S.W.