Introduction: English in the curriculum: norms and practices / Constant Leung & Brian Street --; What counts as English? / Mastin Prinsloo --; The rise and rise of English: The politics of bilingual education in Australia's remote Indigenous schools / Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale --; (Re)Writing English: Putting English in Translation / Bruce Horner & Min Lu --; Multilingual and Multimodal Resources in Genre-based Pedagogical Approaches to L2 English Content Classrooms / Angel Lin --; Multimodal literacies and assessment: Uncharted challenges in the English classroom / Heather Lotherington & Natalia Sinitskaya Ronda --; Beyond Labels and categories in English Language Teaching: Critical reflections on popular conceptualizations / Martin Dewey --; Concluding Remarks: Brian Street & Constant Leung.
In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto largely referenced to metropolitan native-speaker norms, has to be expanded to take account of diverse contexts of use for a variety of purposes. It also discusses the popular belief that language and literacy should simply be regarded as a technical 'skill' which confers universal benefits and that it should be replaced with a social practice view that recognises situated variations and diversity. This volume, we believe, provides a reference point for extended research and practice in these areas that will be of interest to wide range of people engaged in language and literacy education.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.