•Is an instructional approach that advocates the adoption of critical perspectives toward text.

•Critical literacy encourages readers to actively analyze texts and it offers strategies for uncovering underlying messages.

•There are several different theoretical perspectives on critical literacy that have produced different pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning.

•All of these approaches share the basic premise that literacy requires the literate consumers of text to adopt a critical and questioning approach.

Is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are reproduced by text and talk.

Has been deployed as a method of analysis throughout the humanities and social sciences.

The approach draws from several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as critical linguistics where the aim is to

analysis of (spoken or written) language texts,

analysis of discourse practice (processes of text production, distribution and consumption)

analysis of discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice.

We can see a clear set of concerns across approches to Critical Literacy and Critical Discourse Analysis all are governed by a concern to understand text and practices of reading and writing in relationship to question of social change, cultural diversity, and political.