Critical Perspectives on Language Education

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Occupying the ‘Third Space’: Perspectives and Experiences of Asian English Language Teachers

Chapter 3 Changing Perspectives of Literacy, Identity and Motivation: Implications for Language Education

Chapter 4 Constructing Meaning from the Unfamiliar: Implications for Critical Intercultural Education

Chapter 5 Can Teachers Know Learners’ Minds? Teacher Empathy and Learner Body Language in English Language Teaching

Chapter 6 Code-Switching and Indigenous Workplace Learning: Cross-Cultural Competence Training or Cultural Assimilation?

Chapter 7 The Retention of Year 11/12 Chinese in Australian Schools: A Relevance Theory Perspective

Chapter 8 Towards the Establishment of a WACE Examination in Japanese as a Heritage Language: Critical Perspectives

Chapter 9 A Place for Second Generation Japanese Speaking Children in Perth: Can they Maintain Japanese as a Community Language?

Chapter 11 Functional English and Chinese as Mediums of Instruction in a Higher Institution in Hong Kong