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This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.



Table of Contents

Foreword by Allan Luke
Author’s Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Speaking and Identity
2 Language, Identity and Audibility: A New Theoretical Framing
3 On Leaving Newnham: The End of Arrival
4 Tina and John: The Self as Different
5 Milena: Being Friends with Everyone
6 Nora and Alicia: Speaking with the Foreigners
7 Audibility and Institutional Deafness
References
Index

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      Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
      Publication Date: 23/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9781853596414, 978-1853596414
      ISBN10: 1853596418

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.



      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Allan Luke
      Author’s Preface
      Acknowledgements
      1 Speaking and Identity
      2 Language, Identity and Audibility: A New Theoretical Framing
      3 On Leaving Newnham: The End of Arrival
      4 Tina and John: The Self as Different
      5 Milena: Being Friends with Everyone
      6 Nora and Alicia: Speaking with the Foreigners
      7 Audibility and Institutional Deafness
      References
      Index

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