Foreign Languages
Use the section on writing systems on the website www.omniglot.com to answer the questions below.
1. Below are the names of 5 countries written in the Georgian writing system. Provide the two missing English names.
2. The common greeting for ‘hello’ in Korean is ‘annyeong haseyo’. How would you write that using the Hangul writing system?
3. A common greeting for ‘hello’ in Hindi is ‘namaste’. How would you write that using the Devanagari script?
4. Below is the word for ‘Cherokee’ in the Cherokee language. How would you pronounce it/write it in the Latin alphabet?
5. The system of katakana is used to write foreign words in Japanese. What English word is written in katakana below?
II ‘Enquoting Voices’
1. Rewrite the examples of “enquoted voices” below using standard writing conventions.
2. What does the use of quotatives like those above in texts, etc. tell us about media ideologies related to electronically mediated communication today?
III Literacy Practices
What can be done to improve the educational outcomes of children from communities like Heath’s Roadville and Trackton? How can we overcome social inequalities related to differences in literacy while at the same time preserving the diversity of local, culturally specific literacy practices?
