English in Urban Classrooms - A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning

Informationen zum Autor Jill Bourne, Anton Franks, John Hardcastle, Carey Jewitt, ken Jones, Gunther Kress, Euan Reid Klappentext A text that spans a range of issues central to contemporary school English. Zusammenfassung This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other important modes of representation and communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. A Social and Political Framework for Thinking about English 3. A New Approach to Understanding School English 4. The English Classroom as a Multimodal Sign 5. The Organisation of Time in the English Classroom 6. The Pedagogic Construction of 'Ability' in School English 7. The Social Production of Character as an Entity of School English 8. Orchestrating a Debate 9. Only Write Down What You Need to Know: Annotation for What? 10. The Textual Cycle of the English Classroom 11. And Some Final Comments

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• Authors: Jill Bourne, Jill Franks Bourne, Bourne Jill, Anton Franks, Franks Anton, John Hardcastle, Hardcastle John, Carey Jewitt, Jewitt Carey, Ken Jones, Jones Ken, Gunther Kress, Kress Gunther, Euan Reid, Reid Euan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415331685
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33168-5
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; EDUCATION / General, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / General