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Orality and Literacy: From "The Savage Mind" to "Ways With Words."
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Gee, James Paul – Journal of Education, 1989
Reviews anthropological studies and demonstrates how the term "literate" has replaced the term "civilized" and how literacy is currently used to distinguish between different social groups in modern, technological societies. Discusses how teachers of English are actually teaching a set of oral and written social practices associated with the…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Language Acquisition