Learning English : development and diversity

Learning English : development and diversity - London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. - vii, 343 p. : illustrations ; - English language .

Included Index.

English as a first language / Dennis Bancroft --
Reading A. Language addressed to children: linguistic and cultural aspects / Elena V.M. Lieven --
Reading B. The child's expanding social world / Michelle E. Barton and Michael Tomasello --
English in the repertoire / Barbara Mayor --
Reading A. Raising our twins bilingually / Sylvia Rojas-Drummond and Hugh Drummond --
Learning to read and write in English / Pam Czerniewska --
Reading A. Some lessons learnt at bedtime / Henrietta Dombey --
Reading B. What's in a story? / Gordon Wells --
English as a classroom language / Neil Mercer and Douglas Barnes --
Reading A. One cup of newspaper and one cup of tea / G.D. Jayalakshmi --
Reading B. Arguments for and against English as a medium of instruction / Josef Schmied --
Reading C. Teaching writing: process or genre? / Janet Maybin --
A history of English teaching / A.K. Pugh --
Reading A. English and Empire: teaching English in nineteenth-century India / Anthea Fraser Gupta --
Reading B. The Corresponding Societies: working-class literacy and political reform / Colin Lankshear and Maria Lawler --
Reading C. The development of a 'national curriculum' for English in England and Wales / Sue Brindley --
Issues in English teaching / Sue Brindley and Joan Swann --
Reading A. Different voices in the English classroom / Stuart Middleton --
Reading B. Reading: an infant school's perspective / Lorraine Dawes --
Reading C. Learning written genres / J.R. Martin, Frances Christie and Joan Rothery --
English for speakers of other languages / Jill Bourne --
Reading A. English for speakers of other languages: which varieties of English for which groups of learners? / Christopher Brumfit --
Reading B. Dilemmas of a textbook writer / Neville Grant --
English in the academic world / Elizabeth Hoadley-Maidment and Neil Mercer --
Reading A. Culture in rhetorical styles: contrastive rhetoric and world Englishes / Yamuna Kachru --
Reading B. Some language problems faced by overseas students in British universities / Tony Bex.

English is learnt in a range of diverse settings. This book examines processes of language acquisition in English, as well as what it means to learn English in different parts of the world.

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