Importance Of Literacy In Teaching

Literacy is a socially constructed concept which is important in shaping a student’s thinking and views, producing high quality of social thinkers and learners which in turn leads to nation development. To nurture the literacy among the students, teachers take into a great account. Literacy has been studied in different conceptual frameworks and was revealed to be subjective to individuals. How a teacher perceive literacy shape their views and beliefs towards it. Teachers’ belief about literacy can be viewed as the teachers’ beliefs “in determining how (they) teach reading and writing” (Falcón-Huertas, 2006, p. 27).

In 1977, Harste and Burke argued that the ways of a teacher choosing in teaching reading and learning is strongly affected by

To sustain the passion in teaching requires lots of efforts to overcome the hurdles and barriers to passion (Phelps & Benson, 2012). Passion, a word used frequently in describing intense feelings one possesses a particular activity or a goal, is defined by Vallerand and Houlfort (2003) as “a strong inclination toward an activity that people like, that they find important, and in which they invest time and energy” (p.175). Passion for teaching is the “excitement that keeps (teachers) going…(and) make (students’) life different ”(Phelps & Benson, 2012, p. 68). A passionate teacher is full with enthusiasm, committed into their profession, and always find the opportunity to grow (Rampa, 2012; Wang,

The idea of passion can be traced since the age of Plato (429-347 BC) where he argued with the differences between reason and passion (Vallerand, 2010). Years passed by but there is still lacked theoretical frameworks for the research of passion among people. Recent work of Vallerand (2003) proposed that passion is not only a quantitative nature phenomenon which related to how big or how deep the passion is. Rather, the types of passion should be considered. Harmonious and obsessive passion are two kinds of passion proposed by the dualistic model of passion (DMP) by (Vallerand et al., 2003; Vallerand & Houlfort,