Culturally-Responsive Literacy Instruction: A Practical Application for Foreign Language Educators

PORTO, MELINA

San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina

Conferencia; Cultural Awareness in ELT. XXXII FAAPI Conference.; 2007

The British Council, FAAPI (Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés), AJPI (Asociación Jujeña de Profesores de Inglés).

“Culturally-Responsive Literacy Instruction: A Practical Application for Foreign Language Educators”. Cultural Awareness in ELT. Comunic-arte Editorial, Córdoba: 230-239. 2007. ISBN: 978-987-602-070-1. Páginas totales. 252. También en CD. The framework of an increasingly globalized world where the monolingual and monocultural classroom in varied contexts (literacy education, content area instruction, EFL, ESL) is naturally disappearing has ascribed a prominent role to the issue of culture in education. The tendency towards the multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural classroom also points to the importance of cultural factors in language education and education in general. The pervasive presence of cultural diversity in varied educational contexts suggests the need to understand what culturally-responsive literacy instruction means and entails. Educators need the knowledge, procedures, and strategies to see to the complexity that the integration of language and culture involves in the practical reality of the classroom. This paper will explore these issues theoretically, and will offer a practical application for the EFL classroom at different levels.