Glossary


 * Glossary of Terms **


 * Conversationalization: **when everything becomes a potential subject of media discussion


 * Critical Framing: **The goal of critical framing is to help learners frame their growing mastery in practice (from Situated Practice) and conscious control and understanding (from Overt Instruction) in relation to the historical, social, cultural, political, ideological, and value-centered relations of particular systems of knowledge and social practice. Teachers must help learners denaturalize and make strange again what they have already learned or mastered.


 * Cultural Pluralism: **juxtaposition of different languages, discourses, styles, and approaches


 * Design: **creating and planning patterns and conventions of meaning


 * Discourse: **a construction of some aspect of reality from a particular point of view, a particular angle, in terms of particular interest


 * Encapsulated: **to summarize or condense

//**Delivery: **//Features of intonation, stress, rhythm, accent, etc. //**Vocabulary and Metaphor: **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Includes colocation, lexicalization, and word meaning. //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nominalization of Processes: **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Turning actions, qualities, assessments, or logical connection into nouns or states of being (e.g., "assess" becomes "assessment"; "can" becomes ability). //**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Structures: **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How information is presented in clauses and sentences.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Elements of Linguistic Design: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Modality:// **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The nature of the producer's commitment to the message in a clause.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Transitivity:// **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The types of process and participants in the clause. Vocabulary and metaphor, word choice, positioning, and meaning.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Local Coherence Relations:// **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cohesion between clauses, and logical relations between clauses (e.g. embedding, subordination).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Global Coherence Relations:// **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The overall organizational properties of texts (e.g. genres).


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Geopolitics: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">effects of geography on international relations


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the ability to use language proficient; a person's knowledge of a particular subject or field.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy Pedagogy: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Literacy pedagogy has traditionally meant teaching and learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national language 2. literacy pedagogy now must account for the burgeoning variety of text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metalanguage: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a language for talking about language, images, texts, and meaning-making interactions.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multiliteracies: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a way to focus on the realities of increasing local diversity and global connectedness


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multiplicity: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a variety


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nominalization: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">involves using a phrase to compact a great deal of information


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pedagogy: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a teaching and learning relationship that creates the potential for building learning conditions leading to full and equitable social participation


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PostFordism: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">replaces the old hierarchical command structures epitomized in Henry Ford's development of mass production techniques and represented in caricature by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times - an image of mindless, repetitive unskilled work on the industrial production line


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overt Instruction: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Includes all active interventions on the part of the teacher and other experts that scaffold learning, focus the learner the important features of their experiences and activities within the community of learning, and allow the learner to gain explicit information at times when it can most usefully organize and guide practice. One defining aspect of overt instruction is the use of metalanguages, or languages of reflective generalization that describe the form, content, and function of the discourses in practice.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Situated Practice: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The part of pedagogy constituted by immersion in meaningful practices within a community of learners who are capable of playing multiple and different roles based upon their backgrounds and experiences. This aspect of the curriculum aims to recruit learners' past and current experiences, as well as extra-school communities and discourses, as an integral part of the learning experience.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Public”: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">homogeneous imagined community of modern democratic nation


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Transformed Practice: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Transfer in meaning-making practice, which puts the transformed meaning to work in other contexts or cultural sites. Transformed practice offers us a place for situated, contextualized assessment of learners and learning processes. Such processes need to be continually reformulated on the basis of these assessments.