26.2781, Books: The Construction of English: Gray

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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:07:40
From: Stephanie Morgan [Stephanie.Morgan at palgrave.com]
Subject: The Construction of English: Gray

 


Title: The Construction of English 
Subtitle: Culture, Consumerism and Promotion in the ELT Global Coursebook 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
	   http://www.palgrave.com
	

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137507242 


Author: John Gray

Hardback: ISBN:  9780230222588 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 61.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781137507242 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new paperback edition of a previously announced book.

The Construction of English examines the representational practices adopted in the mapping of linguistic and cultural terrain in textbooks for the teaching of English as a foreign or international language. It is a research-based study which takes as its object of investigation the financially lucrative and widely disseminated global coursebook which is produced as part of an incremental English language course designed for global consumption. It identifies the 'representational repertoires' constructed in a sample of historically bestselling coursebooks and includes interviews in which ELT publishers and practising teachers discuss the nature of coursebook content. Drawing on insights from cultural studies and theoretical perspectives on visual communication and consumerism, the book argues that, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, coursebooks can also be seen as promotional commodities which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways which are often considered as dee
 ply problematic by the teachers who use them. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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