Janks, Hilary2015-07-242015-07-242012Janks, H. (2012). The importance of critical literacy. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 11(1), 150-163.1175-8708http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18122This paper is divided into three parts. It begins by making an argument for the on going importance of critical literacy at a moment when there are mutterings about its being passé. The second part of the paper formulates the argument with the use of illustrative texts. It concludes with examples of critical literacy activities that I argue, are still necessary in classrooms around the world.enCritical literacyTextImageDiscourseOrientalismArticle