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Reconceptualizing Critical Literacy Teaching in ESL Classrooms
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu – Reading Teacher, 2012
An instructional focus on critical literacy (CL) encourages students to become active readers and writers of cultural texts so that they can create their own meanings in order to shape and transform their social conditions (Lankshear & McLaren, 1993; Shor, 1992). It is, however, seldom pursued with English learners (ELs) because teachers…
Descriptors: Action Research, Second Language Learning, Moral Issues, Grade 7