The Construction of English : Culture, Consumerism and Promotion in the ELT Global Coursebook / John Gray.

By:

Gray, John, 1955- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xi, 218 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0230222587
9780230222588

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

428.24 22

LOC classification:

PE1128.A2 G6823 2010

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Culture and English Language Teaching -- Describing and Analysing ELT Coursebooks -- Representational Repertoires 1: Streamline Connections and Building Strategies -- Representational Repertoires 2: The New Cambridge Course 2 and The New Edition -- Production and Regulation of Content -- Consumption of Content -- Future Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: "This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways and it argues that the textual construction (and imaging) of English parallels the processes of commodity promotion more generally"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in highly selective ways and it argues that the textual construction (and imaging) of English parallels the processes of commodity promotion more generally"--Provided by publisher.

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