Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners - Exploring Policy and Practice in Global Contexts (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Language Education
Release date:	May 2021
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jennifer Alford
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-66990-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
LSN:	1-138-66990-3
Barcode:	9781138669901

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