The Literate English Language Teacher: Investigations Of Craft Knowledge.

Abstract

This paper is situated within a number ofperspectives, and takes these perspectives as the guidelines for making suggestions for research in Malaysia. White the paper is essentially concerned with educational developments now and in future in the country, it also embarks on suggestions for the study ofliteracy. Literacy in this context is not seen in its traditional guise as learning to read and write, or the encoding and decoding print, but rather as a more open and encompassing state ofaffairs. Literacy in this paper is seen as 'an ongoing process of being able to perform.