In the article “The New Literacy Studies”, James Paul Gee analyzes The New Literacy Studies that replaced with the traditional of literacy, saying how the context of social and cultural is important in literacy. He clarifies how NSL works on “sociocultural approach” languages in the literacy (201). At the beginning, he describes the different views of literacy that using languages in disparate cultures and societies through “discourse patterns” (201-202). Specifically, he details the possibility to learn more deeply in “language and literacy” is to know the difference in writing and communicate between cultures (202). He supports his explanation by discussing “modern consciousness” and how it works in essays through the interaction of Athabaskans
