Style, identity, and literacy : English in Singapore

Style, Identity and Literacy is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction - both inside and outside the classroom - to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school)

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stroud, Christopher (Author), Wee, Lionel , 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tonawanda, New York : Multilingual Matters , c2012
Series:Critical language and literacy studies [13]
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300 |a xiii, 237 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 21 cm. 
490 1 |a Critical language and literacy studies   |v [13] 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-235) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Social practices and linguistic markets -- 2. Multilingualism in late-modern Singapore : a portrait -- 3. Multilingualism in late modernity : literacy as a reflexive performance of identity -- 4. Some data about our data -- 5. Fandi and Ping : literacy practices and the performance of identities on ambivalent markets -- 6. Edwin, Wen and Yan : styling literacy practices inside and outside the classroom -- 7. Sha : a comparison -- 8. Pedagogy, literacy and identity -- 9. The dynamics of language distribution in late-modern multilingual Singapore 
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650 0 |a English language   |x Study and teaching   |z Singapore   |x Foreign speakers 
650 0 |a Multilingualism   |z Singapore 
650 0 |a Native language and education   |z Singapore 
700 1 |a Wee, Lionel ,   |d 1963- ,   |e author 
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