Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual and Empirical Background -- 3 Making Sense of Histories and Literate Legacies -- 4 Literacy and Writing Discourses -- 5 Writing as a Power Differential -- 6 Written Texts as Organic Outgrowth of Complex Linguistic and Cultural Repertoires -- 7 Social and Institutional Lived Experiences -- 8 Mechanics and Practicalities -- 9 Implications, Recommendations and Potential Further Directions -- References -- Index
This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional language. It illustrates some of the social, cultural and political contexts of the writers’ literacy activities and argues for a writing pedagogy that reflects the complexity of writing as a social practice