Title Critical English for academic purposes : theory, politics, and practice / Sarah Benesch

Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	428.0071 Ben/Cef		AVAILABLE

Description xxi, 161 pages ; 24 cm Contents Foreword / Tony Dudley-Evans -- Theoretical Underpinnings -- Complexities of Practice -- Structure and Contents of the Book -- Theory and Politics -- A History of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) -- Theoretical Influences -- Historical Trends -- Political and Economic Roots of EAP -- Political and Economic Roots of ESP/EAP -- Debating EAP Issues: Pedagogy and Ideology -- L2 Compositionists' Critique -- Responses to L2 Compositionists Critique -- Critical Theorists' Critique -- Responses to Critical Theorists -- Critical EAP: Theoretical Influence -- Freire: Hope and Dialogue -- Foucault: Power Relations -- Feminist Pedagogy -- Freire, Foucault, and Feminist Critics: Influences on Critical EAP -- Needs Analysis and Rights Analysis: Relating Traditional and Critical EAP -- Reflexivity: Problematizing Critical Theory and Practice -- Practice -- Topic Choice in Critical EAP: Revisiting Anorexia -- Instructional Context -- Critique of Critical EAP and Critical Thinking -- Topic Choice in Critical and Writing Process Approaches -- Topic Choice in Traditional EAP -- Teacher Imposition and Student Resistance -- Teacher Imposition and Responses of Female Students -- StudentsStudent-Selected Topics in Critical EAP -- Alternatives to Anorexia -- Building Community With Diversity: A Linked EAP/Anthropology Course -- Background: What is an ESL Student? -- Research on Tracking -- Community and a Pedagogy of Difference -- Setting: A Linked EAP Writing/Anthropology Course -- Community Formation in the EAP Class -- The Delegation Summary This book combines the theory and practice of two fields: English for academic purposes and Critical pedagogy. --book cover Analysis English for academic purposes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and indexes Subject Academic writing -- Study and teaching. Critical thinking -- Study and teaching. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching. English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. LC no. 00060981 ISBN 0805834338 0805834346 9780805834338 9780805834345

  Permalink