Framing Languages and Literacies

In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly explicate the major social perspectives with which they are associated; offer their perspective, rationale, and engagement; and investigate implications for educational policies and practices.

Margaret R. Hawkins is Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and in the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Preface 1. Introduction Part 1: Languages and Literacies 2. BICS and CALP: Empirical Support, Theoretical Status, and Policy Implications of a Controversial Distinction 3. Systemic Functional Linguistics 4. Discourses In and Out of School 5. A Postcolonial Perspective in Applied Linguistics: Situating English and the Vernaculars Part 2: Literacies and Languages 6. "Multiliteracies": New Literacies, New Learning 7. Regrounding Critical Literacy: Representation, Facts and Reality 8. Biliteracy Continua 9. Indigenous Literacies: Continuum or Divide? 10. Digital Literacies