Essays about: "critical literacy pedagogy"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words critical literacy pedagogy.

1. 6. The Ministry of Post-Truth: Using George Orwell’s 1984 to Develop English as a Foreign Language Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Hudberg; [2018]
   Keywords : EFL; Critical thinking; George Orwell; 1984; Dystopian Fiction; Post-truth; Alternative Facts; Fake News; Critical literacy pedagogy;

   Abstract : In 2016, “post-truth” was chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford Dictionaries. This is a concept that has come to be associated with a type of political discourse in which objective facts are less important than factual inaccuracies which appeal to emotion to influence people’s attitudes. READ MORE

3. 7. The Potential Role of Critical Literacy Pedagogy as a Methodology When Teaching Literature in Upper Secondary School in Sweden : A Quantitative Study of English Teachers’ Literature Choices

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Kim Killgren de Klonia; [2017]
   Keywords : Critical Literacy Pedagogy; Literature; Upper Secondary School; Teachers; Literature Choices; CLP; EFL; English as a Foreign Language;

   Abstract : Literature’s role in the foreign language classroom has been extensively researched, and the benefits of enjoyable reading firmly established. But could teachers benefit from a new perspective in the form of Critical Literacy Pedagogy when choosing and teaching literary works? Critical Literacy Pedagogy, CLP, is a method of critically examining literature to detect possible power structures e. READ MORE

4. 8. The Three Models  Approach : A Pedagogical Proposal on How to Increase Critical Literacy in the Subject of English on Upper-Secondary Level

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Ellen Lothigius Hirsch; [2016]
   Keywords : English pedagogy; critical literacy; critical language awareness; the noticing;

   Abstract : This degree project essay aims to create ways for promoting critical literacy by teaching persuasive, manipulative, authentic texts in the subject of English at upper-secondary level in Sweden. In the essay, the syllabus of the English subject is critiqued for not explicitly stating what it means to take a critical approach towards sources and media; it is claimed that the meaning of critical examination only is implied in the syllabus for English 7. READ MORE

5. 9. A Marxist reading of John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath: highlighting inequality issues through critical literacy in the ESL classroom

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Olof Jensén; [2016]
   Keywords : The Grapes of Wrath; Marxist criticism; critical literacy; CLP; ESL; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay explores how a critical reading of the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) can inform teachers when discussing inequality issues in the ESL classroom. The main questions being investigated are how the novel The Grapes of Wrath reveals oppressive and unequal power relationships, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used when teaching and informing others about inequality. READ MORE