| Power and Meaning Making in an Eap Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday Contributor(s): Chun, Christian W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783092939 ISBN-13: 9781783092932 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Etymology - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 428.24 |
| LCCN: 2014033093 |
| Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teacher's introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing critical language and discourse awareness of power and meaning making in the classroom. The book traces her evolving classroom practices and addresses how powerful discourses in social circulation found their way into the classroom via the curriculum materials the students encountered. The main themes of the book are threefold: narrowing the divide between critically-oriented researchers and practitioners; how critical literacy is actually implemented in a teacher's classroom; and how people (students and the teacher) engage in and with the representations and discourses of the everyday world that include neoliberal globalization, racial and cultural identities, and consumerism. It will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by relevant classroom interactional data, mediated, multimodal and critical discourse analysis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chun, Christian W.: - Christian W. Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include English for Academic Purposes, critical literacies, social-semiotic approaches to language education, visual culture and linguistic landscapes. |
