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Critical Literacy I see connections among the prominent schools of pedagogic thoughts actively talked about in the U.S. and international community and wish to bridge them for innovative and peace-oriented education. I hope to be able to use the insights into all these interconnected issues in informing educational policy making processes in which I may have an opportunity to participate. Critical thinking started off as some sort of a way to enrich the pursuit of knowledge and truth. It used to be more of literary, or epistemological tradition, but has recently been developed to be more sociopolitical. In that light, critical thinking marries more happily with critical pedagogy and critical literacy. Critical literacy, to me, seems to be most loosely defined when it stands alone, but when it is combined with the more radical ideology of critical pedagogy and the latest version of critical thinking, which has become more sociopolitical (e.g. Richards, Ennis), it becomes a very interesting field. I have tried
for the past few years to bridge the gaps that exist between the pure
language learning and teaching pedagogy and the three schools of thoughts
above. In TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Languages), the
emphasis was, if not has been, placed predominantly on linguistic and
cognitive and inadequately on the intellectual and spiritual aspects of
social practices that are related to and often embedded in language use in
the real world. I believe language education can go much further from
where it stands now toward the more exciting, meaningful endeavors that move
or change the world at all levels: personal, group, national, regional and
global. I will share my work here when my reflections
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Some resources I consulted when I was first exploring critical literacy and its applications with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) as a scaffolding tool:
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