Style, Identity and Literacy : English in Singapore / / Christopher Stroud, Lionel Wee

• Autore: Stroud Christopher
• Pubblicazione: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages)
• Disciplina: 427/.95957
• Soggetto topico: English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers - Singapore; Native language and education - Singapore; Multilingualism - Singapore; English; Languages & Literatures; English Language
• Soggetto non controllato: Bourdieu; English language teaching; ethnography of communication; language issues in Singapore; language policy; linguistic identity; literacy and identity; literacy practices in Singapore; multilingual Singapore; sociolinguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): WeeLionel
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Social Practices and Linguistic Markets -- 2. Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A Portrait -- 3. Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Refl exive Performance of Identity -- 4. Some Data About Our Data -- 5. Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent Markets -- 6. Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the Classroom -- 7. Sha: A Comparison -- 8. Pedagogy, Literacy and Identity -- 9. The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore -- References -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). Combining field data gathered through a series of detailed interviews with available classroom observations, the study focuses on six adolescents from different ethnic and social backgrounds as they negotiate the learning of English against the backdrop of multilingual Singapore. This book provides social explanations for the difficulties and challenges these adolescents face by drawing on current developments in sociolinguistics, literacy studies, English language teaching and language policy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Style, Identity and Literacy
• ISBN: 1-283-33343-0; 9786613333438; 1-84769-597-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781304503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical language and literacy studies