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Boys and Foreign Language Learning
Real Boys Don't Do Languages
ISBN/EAN: 9780230580053
Umbreit-Nr.: 9049973
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 226 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 17.06.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves.
- Kurztext
- The first extended study of boys and language issues which combines original extensive data and critical analysisResponds to a current concern for teachers and for industryBrings to the reader boys' own voices, the girls who study alongside them and their teachersReports on initiatives and attitudes within teaching that could make an improvement in the situation
- Autorenportrait
- JO CARR is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research work focuses on the interconnection between language, culture and identity, with a particular interest in critical analysis of second/foreign language teaching and learning. ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on the intersection between language, gender and ethnicity as well as on feminist language planning in a global context. She is author of Women Changing Language.