English in urban classrooms : a multimodal perspective on teaching and learning / / Gunther Kress ... [et al.].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kress, Gunther R.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ci, 184 p.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• A social and political framework for thinking about English
• A new approach to understanding school English: multimodal semiotics
• The English classroom as a multimodal sign
• The organization of time in the English classroom
• The pedagogic construction of 'ability' in school English
• The social production of character as an entity of school English
• Orchestrating a debate
• Only write down what you need to know: annotation for what?
• The textual cycle of the English classroom
• And so to some final comments.