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 * 1) **Autonomous** Theory of Literacy (A critique in Street 1984, 1995) in Alverman “a universal set of reading and writing skills for decoding and encoding printed text” p. 15-16 (see also Freire “Adult Literacy as Process” 1970) “digestive process”
 * 2) **Cognitive Process** Theory (Langer, 1985) “the ability to think like a literate person, to call upon kinds of reasoning abilities people generally use when they read and write” (in “Contexts for Adolescent Literacy,” 51.
 * 3) **Event (Dialogic)** “the observable characteristics of the immediate social context in which language is being used, including the purposes for language use, the social interaction, the particulars” (Ivanicn 2004) (Heath 1982)
 * 4) Sociocultural and Political Context (**Ideological)** (Street 1984, Freire 1970, Gee, 1989) “Discourses are ways of being in the world; they are forms of life that integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes and social identities, as well as gestures, glances, body positions and clothes,” (p. 526) Includes “patterns of privileging and relations of power among them” (Ivanic, 2004)