Unit 3 – Positioning: How does the writer construct the participants in the text and how is the reader constructed?

This unit had focussed more on the idea of positioning in critical literacy. As usual the key words for this unit are how the writer constructs the people referred to in the text and how does the writer construct the reader. The rest of the unit had clarified some questions through the task given which it helps us in developing the ability to recognise and identify elements of positioning. In positioning, a reader must know how does the writer construct the people referred to in the text and how does the writer construct the reader itself.

In unit 3, there are four Reading articles. The first article is ‘Please, let me go to your school’. Followed by ‘Truth about youth’, ‘Critical Literacy: a linguistic perspective’ and ‘Speech and speakers: the formation of individuals in discourse and genre’. In this unit, the presentation had been presented by Thuraya, Yusafiza and Qursyia. The presentation look disorganized, maybe they did not understand fully this unit and they also have some difficulties in answering the questions given by the audience because they took a long time searching the answer of the question in the Reading book. Talk about unit 3, I only understand certain part of this unit where in my understanding positioning is when we read any reading materials, we must know how the writer constructs the readers and how the writer constructs the participants in that particular reading.