Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching /

"This book describes the creative strategies employed by teachers and students in periphery communities to use the English language in a manner that suits their needs and aspirations while subtly resisting the linguistic imperialism that many scholars have identified as the consequence of the g...

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Main Author: Canagarajah, A. Suresh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:Oxford applied linguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Adopting a critical perspective on pedagogy
  • Challenges in researching resistance
  • Resistance to English in historical perspective
  • Conflicting curricula : interrogating student opposition
  • Competing pedagogies: understanding teacher opposition
  • Clashing codes : negotiating classroom interaction
  • Contrasting literacies : appropriating academic texts
  • The politics and pedagogy of appropriating discourses.