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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780463903321

Autore

Miller Jennifer

Titolo

Audible difference [[electronic resource] ] : ESL and social identity in schools / / Jennifer Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, 2003

ISBN

1-280-82818-8

9786610828180

9781853596432

1-85359-643-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; ; 5

Disciplina

428.00712

Soggetti

English language - Spoken English - Study and teaching (Secondary)

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Foreign speakers

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Social aspects

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Australia

Group identity - Australia

Identity (Psychology) - Australia

Immigrants - Education (Secondary) - Australia

Teenage immigrants - Australia - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.