Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners Exploring Policy and Practice in Global Contexts Routledge Research in Language Education Series
Auteur : Alford Jennifer
This book examines critical literacy within language and literacy learning, with a particular focus on English as an Additional Language learners in schools who traditionally are not given the same exposure to critical literacy as native-English speakers. An important and innovative addition to extant literature, this book explains how English language teachers understand critical literacy and enact it in classrooms with adolescent English language learners from highly diverse language backgrounds.
This book brings together the study of two intersecting phenomena: how critical literacy is constructed in English language education policy for adolescent English language learners internationally and how critical literacy is understood and enacted by teachers amid the so-called ?literacy crisis? in neoliberal eduscapes. The work traces the ways critical literacy has been represented in English language education policy for adolescents in five contexts: Australia, England, Sweden, Canada and the United States. Drawing on case study research, it provides a comparative analysis of how policy in these countries constructs critical literacy, and how this then positions critical engagement as a focus for teachers of English language learners.
Empirically based and accessibly written, this timely book will be of interest to a wide range of academics in the fields of adolescent literacy education, English language learning and teaching, education policy analysis, and critical discourse studies. It will also appeal to teachers, post-graduate students and language education policy makers.
1. What is critical literacy and why is it important for adolescent learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) now?
2. Constructing critical literacy in high school English language education policy – global perspectives.
3. Teaching critical literacy with high school English as an Additional Language learners – a review of international literature.
4. Enacting critical literacy with adolescent English as an Additional Language learners – four case studies of teacher practice.
5. Critical literacy between shifting policy and classroom practice: Cross-case synthesis and future possibilities for practice.
Jennifer Alford is Associate Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice) at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She is a founding member of the global Transnational Critical Literacies Network (TCLN) and co-editor of the RoutledgeHandbook of Critical Literacies.
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners :
Mots-clés :
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