Analyzing Literacy Practice - CPLS - University of British Columbia
Analyzing Literacy Practice - CPLS - University of British Columbia
Analyzing Literacy Practice - CPLS - University of British Columbia
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engagement across studies, we can provide portraits <strong>of</strong> textual use and their cultural<br />
meaning potentials within and across socio-culturally defined groups. It is particularly<br />
informative for responding to statements and beliefs from mainstream institutions that X<br />
marginalized group is low-literate and does not value or use literacy in their homes. For<br />
example, a study <strong>of</strong> migrant farm workers in the U.S. (Purcell-Gates, HYPERLINK<br />
"http://cpls.educ.ubc.ca/content/ongoing_migrant.html"<br />
http://cpls.educ.ubc.ca/content/ongoing_migrant.html ) revealed more than 100<br />
different functions for reading and writing in the camps. Furthermore, these functions<br />
reflected the lives <strong>of</strong> the migrant workers – lives <strong>of</strong> documentation, rules, accessing health<br />
care, family, and religion.<br />
Table 3. Sample <strong>of</strong> the Function codes from the <strong>CPLS</strong> Coding Manual<br />
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