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Balancing Linguistic and Social Needs: Evaluating Texts Using a Critical Language Awareness Approach

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Case, Rod E.; Ndura, Elavie; Righettini, Marielena – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005

English as a second language (ESL) content-based texts are often evaluated for their presentation of sound second-language teaching practices. While such reviews are important and valuable, they ignore an examination of the race, class, and gender issues introduced in the texts. A critical perspective on textbook evaluation organized around the…

Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

The Consciousness-Raising Movement. Will it Change Language Teaching?

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Chamberlain, Alan – Babel: Australia, 1998

Suggests that language awareness, or consciousness raising, has great potential in second-language learning. Language awareness presents students with linguistic data so they can work out grammatical rules for themselves. Offers a variety of examples of possible language-awareness lessons, first for the teaching of English, then for the teaching…

Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), French