Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language Learners

Taylor & Francis

Critical Literacy with Adolescent English Language LearnersExploring Policy and Practice in Global Contexts\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Alford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138669901, 978-1138669901\nSynopsis\nThis book examines critical literacy within language and literacy learning, with a particular focus on English as an Additional Language learners in schools who traditionally are not given the same exposure to critical literacy as native-English speakers. An important and innovative addition to extant literature, this book explains how English language teachers understand critical literacy and enact it in classrooms with adolescent English language learners from highly diverse language backgrounds. \n\nThis book brings together the study of two intersecting phenomena: how critical literacy is constructed in English language education policy for adolescent English language learners internationally and how critic.