Boys and Foreign Language Learning

Real Boys Dont do Languages

J. Carr, A. Pauwels

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Palgrave
17 June 2009

Usage & grammar guides; Sociolinguistics; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Gender studies, gender groups; Education; Teacher training; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational: Languages other than English; Languages & ESL; Methodology; English as a Second Language

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.

By: J. Carr, A. Pauwels
Imprint: Palgrave
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN: 9780230580053
ISBN 10: 023058005X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 17 June 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Head of College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, UK and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on the intersection between language, gender and ethnicity as well as on feminist language planning in a global context. She is author of Women Changing Language.

Reviews for Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Dont 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