Focus on Literacy. Danling Fu

Educators implement hundreds of instructional decisions each day. Some are carefully planned well in advance and some are designed on the spot in response to immediate teachable moments or instructional challenges. We hope to encourage teachers and future teachers to use this text as a springboard for the exploration of their own ideas about literacy instruction and to further develop their own professional stance.

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      Communicative Competence: Literacy for the 21st Century

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      In this chapter, we will present the theoretical framework for this book – a languaging-as-thinking perspective – and discuss the concept of literacy for a fast-growing, technologically advanced, globalized world. This chapter defines and examines linguistic competence and communicative competence as they pertain to 21st-century language and literacy instruction. In addition, this chapter will invite you to explore your ideas on topics pertaining to L2-literacy instruction that empower all learners and to position yourselves as decision-making professionals for the 21st-century globalized world.