Preface





Today, we immerse in a complicated media environment Undoubtedly and unavoidably, the traditional literacy, which could not keep pace with the swift development of digital information and communication technologies, has been challenged and requires to be expanded My initial motivation for writing this book arises from a sense of responsibility and a keen interest in combining my research with my teaching As a college English teacher, I feel obligated to do something through my teaching to raise the students′ awareness of media literacy as well as to foster their media literate abilities and skills in today′s complex media world As we know, English is an important part of the compulsory curriculum in many countries, including China As media literacy education has been a particular concern for teachers of English or teachers of language and literature, much of the energy of media literacy educators has focused on the attempt to integrate media teaching within the curriculum for English (Bazalgette, 1991; Goodwyn, 1992; Hart and Hicks, 2001) “What does it mean to be literate?” and “How can the media literacy skills be fostered?” are two important and key questions in media literacy pedagogy This book suggests integrated strategies and interdisciplinary approaches in daily teaching It intends to adopt the idea of integrating Critical Discourse Analysis into media literacy teaching and foster the students′ critical thinking through deconstructing media messages 
This book could not have been completed without the help of many people I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all of them First, special acknowledgment is given to Prof Su Chengzhi, my respectable supervisor, who has retired for several years from the Foreign Languages College, Shanghai Normal University Second, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to my colleagues in the School of International Studies, Hangzhou Dianzi University, whose encouragements and help are constructive to the completion of this work The last but not the least, I feel grateful to my family for their unconditional love and support 



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