Critical Language Awareness

✍ Scribed by Norman Fairclough

• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman; Routledge
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Series: Real Language Series
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political issues, and the context within which language awareness work is set.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part I Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches
2 The appropriacy of 'appropriateness'
Part II Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts
3 Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom
4 Making it work - communicaton skills training at a black housing association
5 Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom
6 Who's who in academic writing?
7 The construction of gender in a teenage magazine
Part III Critical Language Awareness in Schools
8 English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness
9 'What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment
10 Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools
11 Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study
12 Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness
Part IV Critical Language Awareness: Perspectives for Emancipation
13 Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse
Index