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Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages
Carr, Jo, Pauwels, Anne
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Description for Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages
Paperback. The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; CFB; CJ; JFSJ; JNU; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves.
The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230580053
SKU
V9780230580053
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99-15
About Carr, Jo, Pauwels, Anne
JO CARR is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research work focuses on the interconnection between language, culture and identity, with a particular interest in critical analysis of second/foreign language teaching and learning. ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of Arts, Humanities and ... Read more
Reviews for Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages
'....the discussion is thorough, lucid and thought provoking...one of the virtues of this book is its insistence that, even in a single society, the effects of culture and gender are neither uniform nor monolithic...For both researchers and practitioners, their book has much to offer...' - Deborah Cameron, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development