“When I see a sale, I say: ‘Ah! But when will this expire?’”: Pragmatic Relations in the Practices of Reading Expiration Dates by Older Women Literacy Students

Author(s): Flávia Cristina Duarte Pôssas Grossi and Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis Fonseca – Federal Institute of Minas Gerais

The study sheds light on the importance of considering pragmatic, syntactic, and semantic dimensions of numeracy practices in adult literacy education. It demonstrates how older women literacy students engage with and produce their own meanings for school mathematics practices, highlighting the ways in which they navigate social practices and attribute personal significance to them.

ALE Journal – Volume 5, Issue 2

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