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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jennifer.

Series:

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 5.

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Spoken English--Study and teaching (Secondary).

English language.

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.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology)--Australia.

Identity (Psychology).

Immigrants--Education (Secondary)--Australia.

Immigrants.

Teenage immigrants--Australia--Social conditions.

Teenage immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610828180

9781853596432

9781280828188

1280828188

9781853596438

1853596434

OCLC:

475918498