Individuals are often faced with situations where the discourse being practiced is unfamiliar to them. What gives rise to this feeling of uncertainty and discomfort? When people enter the world as infants, they are born into a specific discourse, usually their nationality or location of birth. But as we grow older and gain new experiences, we are confronted with various other discourses and we acquire an additional set of discourses. James Paul Gee and Brian …showed first 75 words of 1572 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1572 total…where you are able to achieve full acquisition. Authors such as Friere and Bartholomae hold a more egalitarian point of view. They believe that everyone is entitled to education in order to advance in society and the foundation of literacy is based on learning how to read and write. Through this basic definition of literacy, people can adapt into their changing environment and pick up new discourses, other than the ones they are born into.