The Discovery of Competence and Goen's IRW Principles

I see much similarity between the ideals set forth in The Discovery of Competence and Goen's principles in founding SFSU's Integrated Reading and Writing course. Both focus on the sociocultural aspects of learning. Students' prior knowledge is recognized and incorporated into the classroom, where they build connections between the sociocultural communities they live in and the academic communities they now access through class and compositions. Both centralize the importance of meaning-building activities, where language--writing, speaking, and listening--is used to construct knowledge and communicate in purposeful, pertinent contexts.