"Through talk, students not only communicate information but also explore and come to understand ideas and concepts; identify and solve problems; organize their experience and knowledge; and express and clarify their thoughts, feelings, and opinions. When they converse about information and ideas, they become aware not only of the various perspectives of other speakers and writers but also of the language structures and conventions they use."

"An effective reader is one who not only grasps the ideas communicated in a text but is able to apply them in new contexts. To do this, the reader must be able to think clearly, creatively, and critically about the ideas and informa- tion encountered in texts in order to understand, analyse, and absorb them and to recog- nize their relevance in other contexts." 

"The forms and genres explored may include essays, reports, short stories, poetry, scripts, journals, letters, biographies, children’s stories, articles, reviews, précis, explanations, instructions, notes, procedures, résumés, and advertisements." 

"Media studies focuses on the construction of meaning through the combination of several media “languages” – images, sounds, graphics, and words."