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The power of literacyArchive for November, 2008
The power of literacy for indian women
The National Literacy Mission has started a silent revolution in Haryana’s Karnal district by empowering the weaker sections to seek equality and freedom from unjust social mores.
EWOB
Last week, linsier and I have participated into the conference of EWOB. In that conference, we presented our research about the L2 learners’ frame of references and the role of community. This is our first present in a conference like this. Thanks to those encouragement and inspiration from our peers, teachers and other researchers, we finally compeleted our presentation.
I will provide the abstract as follow:
After 1990s, researchers have shifted their focus more on social context and the influence of
interaction and social practice on the process of second language learning (SLL). Classroom has
become a key site for researchers to study how interaction between teachers and students or among students impacts on SLL. However, they seldom pay attention to how the participation of outside classroom activities and local communities such as working place, and peer networks affect to
students progress on language learning and their social identity reconstruction. Our presentation first quickly reviews the development of socio-cultural theories and critical sociolinguistics in SLA. We then present the interviews done by ourselves and our colleagues, and discuss the ways local communities and target language speakers facilitate or constrain L2 learners to access English. We will also examine how L2 learners alter their identities when they shift their frame of reference from native speakers to bilingual users in SLL. Finally, we will explore the differences between two related, but far different viewpoints: researcher views and learners perspectives on the translation of learners
identities.
