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Balancing Linguistic and Social Needs: Evaluating Texts Using a Critical Language Awareness Approach
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Direct linkCase, Rod E.; Ndura, Elavie; Righettini, Marielena – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2005
English as a second language (ESL) content-based texts are often evaluated for their presentation of sound second-language teaching practices. While such reviews are important and valuable, they ignore an examination of the race, class, and gender issues introduced in the texts. A critical perspective on textbook evaluation organized around the…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
