Critical Language Awareness

ISBN-13: 9780582064676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 356 str.

Norman Fairclough

Opis

Presents an approach to language awareness based upon critical theories of language and language education. This text consists of 13 essays with contributions from both theorists and practitioners on subjects such as language in multicultural education and English as a foreign language.

Spis treści

List of contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction, Norman Fairclough

Part I: Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches
2. The appropriacy of `appropriateness', Norman Fairclough

Part II: Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts
3. Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom, Catherine Wallace
4. Making it work - communication skills training at a black housing association, Pete Sayers
5. Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom, Romy Clark
6. Who's who in academic writing?, Roz Ivanic and John Simpson
7. The construction of gender in a teenage magazine, Mary Talbot

Part III: Critical Language Awareness in Schools
8. English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness, Michael Stubbs
9. `What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment, Malcolm McKenzie
10. Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools, Paul Clarke and Nick Smith
11. Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study, Lesley Lancaster and Rhiannan Taylor
12. Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness, Arvindh Bhatt and Marilyn Martin-Jones

Part IV: Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse, Hilary Janks and Roz Ivanic

Index

O autorze

Norman Fairclough