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A 8 paper that reports and discusses the interrelationship of literacy, language, culture and identity. The writer discuses how each relates to the others and the fact that literacy does not mean the same thing in all cultures. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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in anthropological studies (Gee, 1989). As technology has continued to advance, even more terms are found in the mix of terms related to literacy, e.g., full literacy versus restricted literacy
(Gee, 1989). At the same time, a different perception of literacy has also emerged (Gee, 1989). First, the term is viewed to be plural instead of singular, which avers that
literacy does not mean the same thing in all cultures and societies (Gee, 1989). In fact, there are different views of what literacy is in subgroups of major groups within
a society (Gee, 1989). Also, "literacy has different social and mental effects in different social and cultural contexts" (Gee, 1989, p. 39). Moll (2001) also discuses the outcomes of language
and using artifacts, which the author says has social and intellectual outcomes. Outcomes are social in that they "mediate how humans communicate with one another" (Moll, 2001, p. 15) and
they are intellectual in that they mediate how humans think, how humans constitute and develop their intellectual capacities" (Moll, 2001, p. 15). This mediation does not involve only the artifacts
themselves but the way in which they are used (Moll, 2001). It is a reciprocal and inherently a dynamic process rather than a static process. They provide a sense of
identity for people, a sense of where they themselves belong in history as well as in their own culture (Moll, 2001). If we consider literacy as a plural term instead
of a singular term, then, multicultural education becomes even more important to implement. Nieto (DATE) expresses this same opinion and reminds the reader that true multicultural education is both anti-biased
and anti-racists (Nieto, DATE). Thus, it would complement this discussion on literacy, language, culture and identity because each culture would be validated, thus, affirming the students identity. Literacy is defined
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