Language, power, and pedagogy : bilingual children in the crossfire /
Annotation Focuses not only on issues of language learning and teaching, but also highlights the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-student interaction in the classroom. Subjects include critiques of the conversational/academic language proficiency distinct...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
Multilingual Matters,
©2000
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| Series: | Bilingual education and bilingualism ;
23 |
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| Summary: | Annotation Focuses not only on issues of language learning and teaching, but also highlights the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-student interaction in the classroom. Subjects include critiques of the conversational/academic language proficiency distinction, assessing second-language proficiency among adults, evaluating empirical data on bilingual education, and transformative pedagogy. Cummins teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Distributed by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-306) and index |
| ISBN: | 1847698441 1853594733 1853596779 9781847698445 9781853594731 9781853596773 |