Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Posted at 6:14 PM
Attempt to justify my deliberate drowning and immersion of self in Japanese music and Japanese entertainment of all sorts.

Any discourse (primary or secondary) is for most people most of the time only mastered through acquisition, not learning. Thus, literacy is mastered through acquisition, not learning, that is, it requires exposure to models in natural, meaningful, and functional settings, and teaching is not liable to be very successful - it may even initially get in the way. Time spent on learning and not acquisition is time not well spent if the goal is mastery in performance.

Gee, James Paul. What is Literacy?

Also, from the very same article, this excerpt then justifies (or rather, makes me feel better about..) the thousands of dollars I have already spent on Japanese classes.

One cannot critique one discourse with another one (which is the only way to seriously criticize and thus change a discourse) unless one has meta-level knowledge in both discourses. And this meta-knowledge is best developed through learning, even when one has to a certain extent already acquired that discourse. Thus, powerful literacy, as defined above, almost always involve learning, and not just acquisition.

Gee, James Paul. What is Literacy?

This article is from one of the chapters I have to read for this week. It is quite an interesting read, actually.. Not as tough as the previous week's, at least.

So, anyhow, this is yet another example how and why in life, and in every thing we do, BALANCE is key... else, you failfall..

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Classic ShoFail for you gaiz.