Critical Language Awareness

Abstract

List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction, Norman Fairclough Part I: Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches 2. The appropriacy of 'appropriateness', Norman Fairclough Part II: Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts 3. Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom, Catherine Wallace 4. Making it work - communication skills training at a black housing association, Pete Sayers 5. Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom, Romy Clark 6. Who's who in academic writing?, Roz Ivanic and John Simpson 7. The construction of gender in a teenage magazine, Mary Talbot Part III: Critical Language Awareness in Schools 8. English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness, Michael Stubbs 9. 'What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment, Malcolm McKenzie 10. Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools, Paul Clarke and Nick Smith 11. Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study, Lesley Lancaster and Rhiannan Taylor 12. Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness, Arvindh Bhatt and Marilyn Martin-Jones Part IV: Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse, Hilary Janks and Roz Ivanic Index