Individual freedom in language teaching : helping learners to develop a dialect of their own

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Contents List of figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv PART ONE Language and education 1 1 Language, linguistics, and education 3 2 Understanding and the acquisition of knowledge 21 3 Simplification and the teacher 33 PART TWO Second language learning 45 4 Teaching communicative competence 47 5 Language, culture, and English for Academic Purposes 55 PART THREE Language in British education 63 6 Language in education: coherence or chaos 65 PART FOUR Literature and education 85 7 Literature, power, and the canon 87 8 Assessing literary competence 93 PART FIVE The politics of language teaching 103 9 British cultural studies 105 10 Teaching English as a world language 115 11 The English language and language rights 127 PART SIX Research and understanding 143 12 Research in the language classroom 145 13 Teaching, researching, and knowledge 159 14 Educational linguistics, applied linguistics, and the study of Language practices 167 Bibliography 189 Index 201

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