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Wallace, Catherine – Trentham Books, 2014
In this lecture Professor Catherine Wallace explores the literacy and language development of two groups of EAL (English as an Additional Language) pupils in London schools: Year 5 pupils in a primary school and Year 8 new arrivals in a secondary school. As they navigate their way through the British educational system, the learners recount…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Literacy Education
Hamston, Julie – Australian Educational Researcher, 2006
This article describes the application of Bakhtin's (1981, 1986a,b) theorisation of language as dialogue to the study of young students' struggle with discourses of ethnicity within the context of a Studies of Asia curriculum project (Hamston 2003). Bakhtin's rich conceptualisation of the productive and ethical nature of dialogue has operated at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Students, Ethnicity