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UNINA9910791600603321 |
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Autore |
Appleby Roslyn |
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Titolo |
ELT, gender and international development [[electronic resource] ] : myths of progress in a neocolonial world / / Roslyn Appleby |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-14757-2 |
1-84769-305-9 |
1-84769-303-2 |
1-84769-482-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 243 p. ) : ill., map |
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Collana |
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Critical language and literacy studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Study and teaching - Foreign countries |
English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers |
Women teachers |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: This is Where it Crashed and Burned -- Chapter 1. Models of Development and English Language Teaching -- Chapter 2. Time and Space in English Language Teaching, Gender and Development -- Chapter 3. Spatial Context: East Timor, Indonesia and Australia -- Chapter 4. Being There: Teachers’ Spatial Engagements with Development Contexts -- Chapter 5. It’s a Bubble: English Language Teaching Practices in Development -- Chapter 6. Doing the Washing Up: Teaching and Gender in Development -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Spatial Practices in the Contact Zone -- Appendix A. Teachers and Projects -- Appendix B. Transcription Codes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest. What happens when white Western |
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