Audible Difference
ESL and Social Identities in Schools
1st Edition
Published on 23. April 2003
216 pages
978-1-85359-643-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-643-8 (9781853596438)
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Person
Jennifer Miller is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Queensland where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the TESOL area, as well as in pre-service teacher education. Her research and publications are in the areas of language acquisition and identity, qualitative methodology and teacher's work. Miller also teaches ESL in an intensive reception program for immigrant high school students. She has a strong commitment to the productive nature of combining life inside classrooms with academic work. Audible Difference brings together the academic insights with the perspective of an experienced classroom teacher.
Content
Foreword by Allan Luke
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Speaking and Identity
2 Language, Identity and Audibility: A New Theoretical Framing
3 On Leaving Newnham: The End of Arrival
4 Tina and John: The Self as Different
5 Milena: Being Friends with Everyone
6 Nora and Alicia: Speaking with the Foreigners
7 Audibility and Institutional Deafness
References
Index
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Speaking and Identity
2 Language, Identity and Audibility: A New Theoretical Framing
3 On Leaving Newnham: The End of Arrival
4 Tina and John: The Self as Different
5 Milena: Being Friends with Everyone
6 Nora and Alicia: Speaking with the Foreigners
7 Audibility and Institutional Deafness
References
Index
