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Alford, Jennifer H. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
This paper explores how four English teachers position their English language learners for critical literacy within senior high school curriculum in Queensland, Australia. Such learners are often positioned, even by their teachers, within a broader "deficit discourse" that claims they are inherently lacking the requisite knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, English Language Learners
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Slocum, Audra – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
This paper discusses the social positioning work three Appalachian adolescents engaged in during two literacy events drawn from a year-long critical teacher-researcher ethnographic study in a twelfth-grade English class in a rural Appalachian high school. Data analysis indicates that in these literacy events, the focal students positioned…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Rural Areas, Ethnography, Grade 12