What Do English Teachers Teach? (or Why Isn't the Pope a Bachelor?).

Gee, James Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ399926

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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What Do English Teachers Teach? (or Why Isn't the Pope a Bachelor?)

Gee, James Paul

Journal of Education, v171 n1 p135-46 1989

Discusses cultural models, prototypical scripts that constitute the meaning of language as used by a particular group. Argues that the role of the second language teacher is to encourage students to focus on and develop beyond the cultural models of their home cultures and of the mainstream school culture. (FMW)

Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Images, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Language Teachers, Middle Class Standards, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Opinion Papers

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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."