Critical Language Awareness

The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political issues, and the context within which language awareness work is set.

List of contributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Norman FaircloughPart I: Language Awareness: Critical and Non-critical Approaches2. The appropriacy of `appropriateness', Norman FaircloughPart II: Critical Language Awareness in Diverse Educational Contexts3. Critical literacy awareness in the EFL classroom, Catherine Wallace4. Making it work - communication skills training at a black housing association, Pete Sayers5. Principles and practice of CLA in the classroom, Romy Clark6. Who's who in academic writing?, Roz Ivanic and John Simpson7. The construction of gender in a teenage magazine, Mary TalbotPart III: Critical Language Awareness in Schools8. English teaching, information technology and critical language awareness, Michael Stubbs9. `What I've always known but never been told': euphemisms, school discourse and empowerment, Malcolm McKenzie10. Initial steps towards critical practice in primary schools, Paul Clarke and Nick Smith11. Critical approaches to language, learning and pedagogy: a case study, Lesley Lancaster and Rhiannan Taylor12. Whose resource? Minority languages, bilingual learners and language awareness, Arvindh Bhatt and Marilyn Martin-JonesPart IV: Critical language awareness and emancipatory discourse, Hilary Janks and Roz IvanicIndex