Literacy At Transition : An Exploration Of The Continuities And Discontinuities In Literacy Practices Across Secondary Transfer And Their Implications For Literacy Development

Literacy at Transition, an interpretative study adopting the sociocultural perspective of literacy as a situated social practice, offers an “experiential” (Murdoch, 1986) examination of commonalities and differences in cross-phase literacy practices. Designed as a small ethnographic case study set in four multiethnic inner city schools, it draws on the research traditions of sociolinguistics and c…