The Literacy Approach for foreign language teaching

What does a foreign language teacher teach? The foreign language, right? Or maye not only. Maybe language teachers also need to deal with texts: how they are constructed, how to organize the ideas in a text to make it communicate what I want, how to link ideas... It should come as no surprise that the Literacy Approach is firmly based on the second view of language teaching. And because this is not what most foreign language teachers are trained to do, this "textual" aspect is the one that appears first in the teaching points section of the planning grid. The "textual" aspect is further divided into two elements, text features and text effect. The first one focuses more on the formal aspects of the texts, the ones that can be seen by watching the video, reading the text or listening to the podcast: the use of direct speech, the structure into paragraphs, the way the image and the words on the screen communicate together in a power-point presentation, etc. The secon...