By A. Suresh Canagarajah, Suresh Canagarajah

This booklet explores how English is utilized in outer edge groups, whereas subtly resisting the linguistic imperialism from the worldwide ELT company.

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My job is to select outside programs for the school that coordinate with the intentions of the school and are consistent with the needs of the school, otherwise we’d be going in a thousand different directions. When we first moved the Literacy Lab into an urban elementary school we had teachers (and their parents and spouses) balk at taking the class. There was genuine fear of the unknown. The discomfort is still there for many of our teachers at the beginning of the semester, though the grapevine has reduced it substantially.

Read critically and think critically about teaching and institutional practices. Approach instruction with an expanding sense of social justice and social agency. Engage in literacy critically and purposefully. Approach learning with an expanding sense of social justice and social agency. Base instruction on student’s learning— follow the student’s lead on a productive learning path—and structure activities in the student’s zone of proximal development, with students in productive control of their learning.

Know when they are in their zone of proximal development (ZPD) and what to do when they are not, value being there, and be willing to take risks to move forward. Know when they are in the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and what to do when they are not. Be willing to take risks to move forward. Generate productive, dialogic learning conversations. Engage in collaborative critical inquiry to problematize productively. Engage in dialogic learning conversations. Understand and articulate how literacy and Understand and articulate how print and literacy learning are organized.

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