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Lo-Philip, Stephanie Wingyan – Language and Education, 2014
Although there has been research on literacy as a sociocultural practice, L2 literacy researchers have yet to incorporate and consider how the material characteristics of a writing system interact with sociocultural factors in shaping literacy practices. Drawing on conceptions of literacy as a sociocultural practice, psycholinguistic and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics
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Jones, Peter E. – Language and Education, 2013
This paper examines the key linguistic arguments underpinning Basil Bernstein's theory of "elaborated" and "restricted" "codes". Building on a review of selected highlights from the collective critical response to Bernstein, the paper attempts to clarify the relationship of the theory to "deficit" views…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Cognitive Processes, Models, Literacy