Audible difference : ESL and social identity in schools / / Jennifer Miller

• Autore: Miller Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.00712
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Audible difference
• ISBN: 1-280-82818-8; 9786610828180; 9781853596432; 1-85359-643-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826892503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Languages for intercultural communication and education ; ; 5.