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Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do Languages 2006th Edition
Author(s): Jo Carr (Author), Anne Pauwels
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2009
- Edition: 2006th
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 023058005X
- ISBN-13: 9780230580053
Book Description
This book examines the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages and is framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling.
Editorial Reviews
Review
'....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
About the Author
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 Social Sciences 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.
