Critical Language Awareness (Real Language Series)

Presents an approach to language awareness based upon critical theories of language and language education. This text consists of 13 essays with contributions from both theorists and practitioners on subjects such as language in multicultural education and English as a foreign language. 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 Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of contributors 8 Acknowledgements 12 1 Introduction 14 Part I Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches 44 2 The appropriacy of 'appropriateness' 46 Part II Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts 70 3 Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom 72 4 Making it work - communicaton skills training at a black housing association 106 5 Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom 130 6 Who's who in academic writing? 154 7 The construction of gender in a teenage magazine 187 Part III Critical Language Awareness in Schools 214 8 English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness 216 9 'What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment 236 10 Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools 251 11 Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study 269 12 Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness 298 Part IV Critical Language Awareness: Perspectives for Emancipation 316 13 Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse 318 Index 345 Pt. 1. Language awareness : critical and non-critical approaches -- pt. 2. Critical language awareness in diverse educational contexts -- pt. 3. Critical language awareness in schools -- pt. 4. Critical language awareness : perspectives for emancipation