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Publication details [#31338]

McKay, Sandra Lee. 2002. Examining L2 composition ideology: A look at literacy education. Journal of Second Language Writing 2 (1) : 65–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

composition | ideology | literacy | pedagogy | writing, L2-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

1060-3743

Journal WWW

www.jslw.org/

Annotation

This paper explores three widely held assumptions in literacy education, i.e. that literacy is a social practice, that a plurality of literacies exist, and that literacy educators must deal with issues of power, and discusses their implications for second language composition ideology.