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With a Foreword by Hugh Starkey and Audrey Osler, and Afterwords by Graham Crookes, Hilary Janks and Allan Luke, this book promotes critical language education and illustrates how a critical agenda can be enacted in English language education in real classrooms. It presents four cases located in primary and secondary schools in the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina in contexts that can be characterised as vulnerable or difficult. It descri...

This book appeals to language teachers who wish to instill critical thinking in their students, as well as teacher educators. Four case studies, authored by classroom teachers, illustrates the development of critical thinking in the English as a foreign language classroom in primary and secondary school contexts in Argentina. This book uses a wide variety of data collected from their students, such as drawings, posters, conversations between s...

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its purposes, and more supportive of international underst...

The importance of cultural perspectives for enhancing the comprehension of A2 texts has been widely acknowledged by theorists and researchers in the field. This book reports part of the results of a broader study whose specific aim was to describe the comprehension of the cultural content of a literary narrative text through response writing tasks and visual reformulations. About 200 Argentine college students voluntarily participated in the s...

Text in Spanish. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of the cultural content of narrative texts with different perspectives on the process of lecture comprehension in a foreign language. More specifically, this project had three central objectives: to explore the influence of the outside perspective, "from the outside" or "outsider" (that is, with a narrator that is not from the represented culture) apart from the self-gene...

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its purposes, and more supportive of international underst...