Critical Perspectives on Language Education

Australia and the Asia Pacific
Herausgegeben:Dunworth, Katie; Zhang, Grace

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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', and practices of language education and maintenance with relevance to the Asia-Pacific region. The analyses reveal the delicate balance of interests of all stakeholders and offer detailed insights into the reality of multilingual education, with specific examples of Chinese, English, Japanese and Tamil. In a globalised world, effective language education has become increasingly important, and the studies presented here have the potential to inform and advance evidence-based multilingual education through adding important dimensions of theoretical exploration and refreshing empirical resources.

Produktdetails

• Multilingual Education 11
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86358881, 978-3-319-06184-9
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9783319061849
• ISBN-10: 3319061844
• Artikelnr.: 40565492

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"This book, which brings together several perspectives on language education, mostly from Western Australia, consists of eleven chapters. ... this volume makes a useful addition to the scholarship about language education. Some of the chapters will be of particular interest to scholars interested in critical education, language contact and language maintenance." (Achilleas I. Kostoulas, The Linguist List, July, 2015)