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Sociocultural and Power-Relational Dimensions of Multilingual Writing : Recommendations for Deindustrializing Writing Education / Amir Kalan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and Education ; 90Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788927802
  • 9781788927819
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.0071/1 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • PE1128.A2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual and Empirical Background -- 3 Making Sense of Histories and Literate Legacies -- 4 Literacy and Writing Discourses -- 5 Writing as a Power Differential -- 6 Written Texts as Organic Outgrowth of Complex Linguistic and Cultural Repertoires -- 7 Social and Institutional Lived Experiences -- 8 Mechanics and Practicalities -- 9 Implications, Recommendations and Potential Further Directions -- References -- Index
Summary: This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional language. It illustrates some of the social, cultural and political contexts of the writers’ literacy activities and argues for a writing pedagogy that reflects the complexity of writing as a social practice.

Frontmatter -- NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual and Empirical Background -- 3 Making Sense of Histories and Literate Legacies -- 4 Literacy and Writing Discourses -- 5 Writing as a Power Differential -- 6 Written Texts as Organic Outgrowth of Complex Linguistic and Cultural Repertoires -- 7 Social and Institutional Lived Experiences -- 8 Mechanics and Practicalities -- 9 Implications, Recommendations and Potential Further Directions -- References -- Index

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This book examines the writing practices of three adult multilingual writers through the prism of their writing in English as an additional language. It illustrates some of the social, cultural and political contexts of the writers’ literacy activities and argues for a writing pedagogy that reflects the complexity of writing as a social practice.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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