Language and literacies : selected papers from the annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Manchester, September 1998 / edited by Teresa O'Brien ; advisory board, Srikant Sarangi, Gunther Kress, Celia Roberts.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: The pluralisation of literacy / Teresa O'Brien iv -- 1 National Literacy Strategy: A debate / Jill Bourne, Gunther Kress, Brian Street, Alison Sealey 1 -- 2 Literacy and Oracy Assessment in an Early Years Intervention Project / Sheena Gardner, Pauline Rea-Dickins 14 -- 3 The Role of Social Class and Home Literacy Practices in Literacy Proficiency in a Group of Chilean Adolescents / John Gibbons, Elizabeth Lascar, Maria Isabel Mizon Morales 26 -- 4 'How Many Bumps does a Dromedary Have?': Literacies in the EFL classroom / Paula Kalaja, Anne Pitkanen-Huhta 43 -- 5 Critical Literacy as Classroom Interaction / Catherine Wallace 58 -- 6 Authoring in Student Academic Writing: Regulation and desire / Theresa Lillis 73 -- 7 Contrastive Rhetoric: New research avenues / Ulla Connor 88 -- 8 The 1998 Reform of German Orthography / Sally Johnson 101 -- 9 Women's Literacy in a Rural Pakistani Community / Shirin Zubair 114 -- 10 Issues for a Working Agenda in Literacy / Gunther Kress 126 -- 11 Label Literacy: Factors affecting the understanding and assessment of baby food labels / Guy Cook, Kieran O'Halloran 145.

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