Critical Perspectives on Language Education Australia and the Asia Pacific / [electronic resource] : edited by Katie Dunworth, Grace Zhang. - Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2014. - 1 online resource (XII, 231 p. 5 ill.) - Multilingual Education, 11 2213-3208 ; .

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Occupying the 'Third Space': Perspectives and Experiences of Asian English Language Teachers -- Chapter 3: Changing Perspectives of Literacy, Identity and Motivation: Implications for Language Education -- Chapter 4: Constructing Meaning from the Unfamiliar: Implications for Critical Intercultural Education -- Chapter 5: Can Teachers Know Learners' Minds? Teacher Empathy and Learner Body Language in English Language Teaching -- Chapter 6: Code-switching and Indigenous Workplace Learning: Cross-cultural Competence Training or Cultural Assimilation? -- Chapter 7: The Retention of Year 11/12 Chinese in Australian Schools: A Relevance Theory Perspective -- CHAPTER 8: Towards the Establishment of a WACE Examination in Japanese as a Heritage Language: Critical Perspectives -- Chapter 9: A Place for Second Generation Japanese Speaking Children in Perth: Can they Maintain Japanese as a Community Language? -- CHAPTER 10: Tamil Language in Multilingual Singapore: Key Issues in Teaching and Maintaining a Minority Language -- Chapter 11: Functional English and Chinese as Mediums of Instruction in a Higher Institution in Hong Kong -- Subject index.

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Education.
Applied linguistics.
Language and education.
Educational sociology.
Education and sociology.
Sociology, Educational.