Warchauer – The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching

Warschauer, Mark. “The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching.” TESOL Quarterly 34 3 (2000): 511-35. Print. According to W., his work will investigate the effects of late capitalism (he calls it informationalism – following Castells – but it also goes by post-Fordism, post-industrialism, information economy, etc.) on the teaching of English language.  Specifically he intends to cover three issues:  1)... Read More

Wysocki et al. – Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

Wysocki, Anne Frances et al. Writing New Media : Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004. Print. Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications (Wysocki) W. references Bolter and Kress early on in this first chapter to point out the fact that writing is always changing; however, today, writing’s “material practice” is changing in fairly quick and momentous ways. ... Read More

CCR711 – Mills – Multiliteracies

Mills, Kathy A. “Multiliteracies: Interrogating Competing Discourses.” Language &           Education: An International Journal 23 2 (2009): 103-16. Print. Mills argues that the diverse cultural and linguistic contexts of life in a transnational and sometimes digitized world have led to the development of “multiliteracies” or, as the New London Group defined it, the “new literacies and changing forms of meaning making”... Read More