Bill, you seem to be asking a similar question to the one I was
asking in response to Eugene's article....
- Judy
(you wrote:)
the notion of communicative competence embeds an assumption about
>decontextualization of skill and being able to re-contextualize language
>skills in a variety of settings.
>
>While some of us might object to the "storage" metaphor altogether, it is
>challenging to find convincing sociocultural arguments for how participation
>accounts of cultural activities can interpret these data and make convincing
>arguments. As others on this list have suggested in the past, some of the
>answer to this particular dilemma may rely on the relations among activities
>and homologies between forms of participation across different cultural
>activities that make it easier to re-contextualize language practices in
>alien or new settings.
>
>Bill Penuel
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Judy Diamondstone
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
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