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BSc(UNB,Canada), BEd(UNB,Canada), TEFLA(University of Cambridge), MEd(HKU, Hong Kong)
The Letter 'X'...
Xian’s 祖父母
live with his family
Judy’s far from home
With your grandparents in
your heart
You’ll never be alone
Xerox copies of one another
we are not, still all can agree that we:
- know that xi is a letter in the Greek alphabet
- like the sound of a xylophone
- know that Merry Xmas means Merry Christmas
- know that Xhosa is a language
- have an X-chromosome
- know that xenon is one of the elements on Earth
- know that an x-ray machine can be found in a hospital
- think that xeranthemum is a big world for a flower
- know that xenophobia is often compared to racism
- know how to print the letter X
The emerging research on
popular culture in relation to literacy sheds light on how students interact
outside of school with print and no-nprint texts that are uniquely meaningful
to them in a cultural and linguistic way (Alvermann & Hagood, 2000;
Alvermann, Moon, & Hagood, 1999; Buckingham, 1993; Buckingham &
Sefton-Green, 1994; Chandler, 1999; Finders, 1997; Gee, 2000; Lewis, 1998;
Luke, 1998). Dyson’s (1993, 1997) work with teachers who supported diverse
students’ integration of popular culture into their reading and writing
experiences at school suggests a crucial role for popular culture in students’
acquisition and exercise of skills in multiple literacies (ie. print and
non-print text such as icons, images, and multimedia found on the internet and
in TV shows, music and music videos…etc.). If these teachers had focused on
teaching traditional print literacy and had not allowed their students to write
and act out stories about superheroes, popular songs, and so on, the students’
rich literacy knowledge might not have been apparent. Thus, it seems important
that teacher education courses emphasize the need for preservice and inservice
teachers to become knowledgeable about their students’ experiences with popular
culture, to examine the multiple literacies involved in interactions with
popular culture, and to explore ways to integrate popular culture into
teaching.
Xu, Hong Shelley
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