Practising Critical Literacy Work with English Language Learners: An Integrative Approach

Practising Critical Literacy Work with English Language Learners: An Integrative Approach

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Existing mainstream ESL pedagogy tends to be functionalist and assimilationist, ignoring the complex sociopolitical dimensions of language learning (Pennycook, 2001). In addition, critical inquiry is often deemed too difficult for English language learners (ELLs), hence seldom introduced in ESL clas...

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Main Author: Lau, Man Chu
Other Authors: Cummins, James
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
Subjects:
English Language Learners
critical literacy
middle school
participatory action research
critical pedagogy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24804

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http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24804

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