Because explicit language instruction serves ALL students Here, at last, is every K-8 teacher’s playbook on the critical role academic language plays in conte

Examines how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society. It discusses ways of analysing language which can reveal these pr

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Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is being) used to construct national (or ethnic) iden

This text explores, in an accessible way, key areas of modern society in which language constitutes power and social relations. These are presented in five sect