Critical Perspectives on Language Education Australia and the Asia Pacific
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’,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Multilingual Education
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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: KeyIssues 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