Academic+Communicative+Competence

April 6, 2011
 * Group Discussion: ** **Prepare your responses to these questions as you would for an oral exam. Bring notes (and be prepared to take notes).**

//Purposes// · //to accurately paraphrase, summarize, quote and cite experts’ voices on an academic topic// · //to enter an academic conversation with experts and classmates by adding your own voice to the conversation// · //to alter that conversation by agreeing/disagreeing, partly agreeing/disagreeing, and/or agreeing and disagreeing at the same// with a difference · //to demonstrate textual and topical expertise// · //to use appropriate lexis (// [|http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/Resources/la/QuickClicks%20Repository/LC_worksheet_linking%20words.pdf)] //grammar, and conversational strategies to manage an academic conversation and demonstrate linguistic competence// · //to use genres, purposes, claims, evidence, register, participant roles, and values to demonstrate pragmatic competence// · //to model spoken academic discourse on written academic discourse// · //to use appropriate prosodic features of spoken academic discourse to make statements, seek clarification, and ask questions// · //to synthesize sociocultural, lexicogrammatical, and pragmatic awareness to approximate academic communicative competence//

Nouf, Colleen, Olfat, Aziza, and Mengyi Draft question: 1. According to Kendall, how do media frame different problems in society such as inequality, discrimination between classes, and the middle class's views of the upper class? Dalton, H., (1995), Horatio Alger, Racial Healing: Confronting the fear Between Blacks and Whites, //Rereading America//. Frank, R., //(//2007), Living It, Tim Blixseth, Richistan: A Journey through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, //Rereading America//. Kendall, D., (2008), Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption, Members Only: Clubs and the Process of Exclusion, //Rereading America// La Ganga M., (2009), Tent City, USA, //Rereading America// Mantsios, G., (2007), Class in America, Race, Class and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study, //Rereading America////.// Newman, K., and Tan Chen, V., (2007), From The Missing Class, The Missing Class, //Rereading America.//

Frank, Isabel, Aldemar, star, Marisela Draft question:

1.According to the article of "//The Missing Class"// (349), "//Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption" (330)//, //"Tent City, USA//" (357), what are the different gradations in people who are poor, homeless, working class, middle class, upper class? According to the description of Missing Class families live in neighborhoods that are chronically underserved by financial institutions and scrupulously avoided by grocery Chains and other major retail outlets.(355) There seems to be a chasm between the rich and the poor in many cities. ....not finish yet

2. For Kendall, media frame upper classes as “generous” or “caring individuals” (333). However, in Frank’s text, Tim Blixseth portrays upper classes as “arrogant” and negative influences (281). How does this claim affect this “admiration frame” (333)?

3. After reading the text From "The Missing Class" (347), we understand that “the missing class” people are living between middle class and poverty. According to Newman and Chen “Missing Class family earn less money, have few savings to cushion themselves, and send their kids to schools that are underfunded and crowded “(352). Many people believe that the welfare and workfare will help them live close to the middle class because “welfare programs provide economic support to persons in need; workfare programs require aid recipients to work receive social assistance” (361). Conversely, the workfare and welfare leave working class people far below the poverty level. In the text //From America’s New Working Class//, Arnold states that “the workfare and welfare surveillance and control the working class people”(364-365). What framings does the press and government use, which caused the welfare and working fare done negative effects?

4. As a temporary solution “Tent City” (357) citizens were moved to other places because this “city” was getting the attention of worldwide media. From this, can we infer that getting the attention of the media is a way to solve some American issues such as “The missing class” (349)?

5.- Using La Ganga text (357) as an example of framing by the media, classify this text according to the definition of different framing giving by Kendall in the text "Framing Class (330)". Then make an analysis introducing the myth 4 (307) from the text "Class in America" and contrast this analysis with the theory made by Dalton in the text "Horatio Alter (272).



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