English - A Changing Medium for Education / / ed. by Constant Leung, Brian V Street.
In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto largely referenced to metropolitan native-speaker norms, has to be expanded to take account of diverse contexts of use for a variety of purposes. It also dis...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: English in the Curriculum – Norms and Practices
- 2. What Counts as English?
- 3. The Rise and Rise of English: The Politics of Bilingual Education in Australia’s Remote Indigenous Schools
- 4. (Re)Writing English: Putting English in Translation
- 5. Multilingual and Multimodal Resources in Genre-based Pedagogical Approaches to L2 English Content Classrooms
- 6. Multimodal Literacies and Assessment: Uncharted Challenges in the English Classroom
- 7. Beyond Labels and Categories in English Language Teaching: Critical Reflections on Popular Conceptualizations
- Concluding Remarks
- Index