Street - At Last....

• New Literacy Studies (NLS): approaches focus on the everyday meanings and uses of literacy in specific cultural contexts and link directly to how we understand the work of literacy in educational contexts; represents a shift in perspective on the study and acquisition of literacy, from the dominant cognitive model, with its emphasis on reading, to a broader understanding of literacy practices in their social and cultural contexts; people who support NLS advocate an ethnographic perspective. 
• Autonomous model of literacy: literacy itself will have effects on other social and cognitive practices, irrespective of social conditions and cultural interpretations of literacy.
• Ideological model of literacy: culturally sensitive view of literacy practices. Literacy is a social practice, not simply a technical and neutral skill.
• People who are labelled "illiterate" are literate in specific contexts which they need to be literate in. 
• Ex: a construction worker may not be able to read, but he is literate in the skills he needs to do his job. People who can read may be illiterate in the field of construction. 
• Literacy doesn't just apply to being able to read and write.
• Literacy event: any occasion in which a piece of writing is integral to the nature of the participants' interactions and their interpretive processes.
• Literacy practices: a means of focusing upon the social practices and conceptions of reading and writing.
• We need to rethink, redefine, and redesign language and literacy in the classroom to meet the contemporary needs and skills of students.