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Critical and Alternative Directions in Applied Linguistics
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Pennycook, Alastair – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
Critical directions in applied linguistics can be understood in various ways. The term "critical" as it has been used in "critical applied linguistics," "critical discourse analysis," "critical literacy" and so forth, is now embedded as part of applied linguistic work, adding an overt focus on questions of power and inequality to discourse…
Descriptors: Social Life, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences