Critical Language Awareness Part I: A Critical Review of Three Current Approaches to Language Awareness.
Critical Language Awareness Part I: A Critical Review of Three Current Approaches to Language Awareness.
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批判性语言意识第一部分:对当前三种语言意识方法的批判性回顾。
DOI:
10.1080/09500789009541291
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
M. Martin
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文献类型:
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作者:
R. Clark;N. Fairclough;R. Ivanič;M. Martin
Abstract. We assume that the development of a critical awareness of the world ought to be the main objective of all education, including language education. Language awareness programmes ought therefore to help children develop not only operational and descriptive knowledge of the linguistic practices of their world, but also a critical awareness of how these practices are shaped by, and shape, social relationships and relationships of power. In this, the first of a two‐part paper, we show that a range of existing language awareness proposals and materials are not ‘critical’ in this sense. On the contrary, with a few exceptions, they present the naturalised domain of linguistic practices as a natural domain, a given and common sense reality whose social origins are out of sight. This is true for bilingual, dialectal and diatypic variation. Most current approaches to language awareness present the domain of linguistic practices as a pluralistically harmonious domain; no attention is given to ideological di...