Critical Perspectives on Language Education Australia and the Asia Pacific /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dunworth, Katie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Zhang, Grace (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Multilingual Education, 11
• Θέματα: Education.; Applied linguistics.; Language and education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Language Education.; Sociology of Education.; Applied Linguistics.

The studies in this volume investigate how multilingual education involves a critical engagement with questions of identity and culture, and a movement towards new ways of being and belonging. It addresses previously under-explored issues, in particular the integration of theories like ‘thirdness’,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Occupying the ‘Third Space’: Perspectives and Experiences of Asian English Language Teachers
• Chapter 3: Changing Perspectives of Literacy, Identity and Motivation: Implications for Language Education
• Chapter 4: Constructing Meaning from the Unfamiliar: Implications for Critical Intercultural Education
• Chapter 5: Can Teachers Know Learners’ Minds? Teacher Empathy and Learner Body Language in English Language Teaching
• Chapter 6: Code-switching and Indigenous Workplace Learning: Cross-cultural Competence Training or Cultural Assimilation?
• Chapter 7: The Retention of Year 11/12 Chinese in Australian Schools: A Relevance Theory Perspective
• CHAPTER 8: Towards the Establishment of a WACE Examination in Japanese as a Heritage Language: Critical Perspectives
• Chapter 9: A Place for Second Generation Japanese Speaking Children in Perth: Can they Maintain Japanese as a Community Language?
• CHAPTER 10: Tamil Language in Multilingual Singapore: Key Issues in Teaching and Maintaining a Minority Language
• Chapter 11: Functional English and Chinese as Mediums of Instruction in a Higher Institution in Hong Kong
• Subject index.