This book discusses the need for foreign language programs to teach literacy. It suggests approaches to curriculum development using a wide range of modern media texts such as newspapers, music videos, and film as a basis for cultural analysis.
Part One
1. Notions of literacy
2. Communication, literacy, and language learning
3. Available Designs in literacy
Part Two
4. Reading as design
5. Teaching reading as design
6. Writing as design
7. Teaching writing as design
Part Three
8. Computers, language, and literacy
9. Evaluating learners' performance
10. Rethinking language and literacy teaching