The DALN is completely keyword searchable, so if you are looking to read literacy narratives on particular subjects—such as music or dance as literacy, or any other concentrated subject about which one can demonstrate knowledge—you can search for shared narratives with these literacies.
Love a user friendly info source.
An archive is a collection of artifacts, often historical, that serve to document a time period, location, or group of people.
Archives are such great sources of knowledge on a variety of topics.
Audience. Narratives are designed to appeal to specific audiences; authors choose storytelling elements, details, and language strategies to engage the target audience.
Audience and speaker are the two fundamental requirements for communication.
For example, in the prologue to her memoir about the importance of education for girls, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (2013),
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Problem and Resolution. In narratives, the characters generally encounter one or more problems. The tension caused by the problem builds to a climax. The resolution of the problem and the built-up tension usually occurs near the end of the story.
This is typically the "make or break" point of a novel.
The truth is that people speak and write in different ways for different rhetorical situation, or instances of communication.
Code switching
This viewpoint considers varieties of English outside the imagined norm to be “wrong,” “bad,” or “substandard.”
This happens often with AAVE. People see it as improper, even though it's a perfectly acceptable English dialect.
everyone should recognize and respect these personal ways of communicating, which are integral to a shared human experience.
Respecting alternate human communication methods is basic human decency.
idiolect
I've never heard this term before. Its an interesting way to define your personal speaking and writing method.
UNESCO.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
kinesthetic
relating to a person's awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs (proprioceptors) in the muscles and joints.-Oxford Dictionary
One does not achieve literacy through isolation but rather as a result of active engagements with members of communities.
very well said.
Conversely, you also may communicate with people whose cultural views are at odds or in conflict with your own: for example, a man who publicly advocates outdated gender views might have trouble communicating culturally with a younger female audience.
It's so difficult to talk to someone with differing views on fundamental topics like gender views or political topics because people tend to be very stubborn about their personal beliefs.
Being critical in reading means knowing how to analyze distinctions, interpretations, and conclusions. Being critical in writing means making distinctions, developing interpretations, and drawing conclusions that stand up to thoughtful scrutiny by others.
Good definition of critical reading, writing, and thinking. Critical thinking is often mentioned, but rarely defined.