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ERIC Number: EJ399925
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Dracula, the Vampire Lestat, and TESOL.
Gee, James Paul
Journal of Education, v171 n1 p116-34 1989
Argues that second language learning is a form of enculturation that involves learning the perspectives and identities that a culture allows and values. Proposes that a language teacher is actually changing the cultural identity of the student. (FMW)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education, Identification (Psychology), Perspective Taking, Second Language Learning, Social Development, Social Differences, Sociolinguistics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - General
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Note: Special issue with title "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Essays by James Paul Gee"; reprinted from the TESOL Quarterly, v22 n2, June 1988.