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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809553803321

Autore

Zhao Huajing

Titolo

Gender construction and negotiation in the Chinese EFL classroom [[electronic resource] /] / by Huajing Zhao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-283-14305-4

9786613143051

1-4438-3064-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

306.4408351

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers

English language - Social aspects - China

Teenagers - China

Gender identity - China

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 (p. [241]-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; APPENDIX G; APPENDIX H; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX J; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is developed from an ethnographic case study which investigated Chinese adolescents' construction of their gender identity and the way it is negotiated in the course of learning English as a foreign language (EFL) from a sociolinguistic, sociocultural and sociopsychological point of view. It documented the unseen connections between the micro-level of the students' face-to-face verbal interactions and the macro-level of the role of learning EFL that can play in students' constructio...