paper #2

I chose to write my second paper on topic four—I’m going to be using Gee, Abinader and Mori’s texts to explore the process of moving from a primary discourse to a secondary discourse. I’m going to discuss how Mori and Abinader learned their secondary discourses and whether or not they faced conflict and tension while doing so. I’m also going to discuss whose primary discourses we tend to teach in classrooms, and what the costs and benefits of teaching a dominant discourse to students as a secondary discourse are.