Negotiating what counts as English language teaching: official curriculum and its enactment in two Singaporean secondary classrooms
| Autor: | Anneliese Kramer-Dahl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | Research Papers in Education. 23:85-107 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1146 0267-1522 |
| Popis: | In his 1996 essay on curricula in an age of globalisation, Kress points to the role of the state and its educational system as determining actors when it comes to responding to the effects and pressures of the heteroglossia, hybridity, multilingualism and plurality of semiotic forms that characterise a global era. What is needed, he argues, are ‘relevant and productive curricula’, which teach ‘quite new kinds of dispositions, attitudes and skills’, going beyond the teaching of static forms. In order to give students access to the ways and modes of communication which will be essential in the future, language curricula would have to make it their priority to raise students' awareness of the relative value of linguistic resources and to provide them with the dexterity to act relevantly in and through language in a wide variety of continually shifting social and geographical spaces. This article describes how the 2001 English language syllabus in Singapore schools, though with its foregrounding of students' ... |
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