A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices

Race, Class, and Schooling: Multicultural Families Doing the Hard Work of Home Literacy in America's Inner City

“…The families' critique of and resistance to school practices signify their resistance to the cultural narratives that frame them as ''deficient'' or ''uncaring'' (Rogers, 2003). These ''alternative discourses,'' however, do not always result in their ''getting somewhere'' in terms of school success (ComptonLilly, 2002, p. 123).…”

Literary intertextuality in genre-based pedagogies: Building lexical cohesion in fifth-grade L2 writing

“…Fewer of these studies have explored how explicit teaching of the highly patterned language in children's literature promotes awareness of language as a repertoire of choices (e.g., Williams, 1999Williams, , 2000. As an analytic tool in classroom research, SFL supports a nuanced discourse analysis of the textual products and processes of students, usually in combination with ethnographic analyses of the social practices of a discourse community over time (e.g., Rogers, 2003).…”

Language as a tool in diverse forms of learning

“…Their call for research that attends to connections between home and school as well as to divergences has been taken up by other researchers (e.g. Fecho, 2004;Rogers, 2003;Vasquez, Pease-Alvarez, & Shannon, 1994) and our work aims to contribute to new ways of thinking about variations across contexts rather than strict dichotomies. This is important, because by looking for convergences as well as divergences we may see productive ways to build on everyday language skills.…”