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This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teacher's introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing critical language and discourse awareness of power and meaning making in the classroom. The book traces her evolving classroom practices and addresses how powerful discourses in social circulation found their way into the classroom via the curriculum materials the students encountered. The main themes of the book are threefold: narrowing the divide between critically-oriented researchers and p...
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world. Located within current discourse surrounding Asian poetry, postcolonial and migrant writing, and bridging the fields of literary and cultural criticism with author interviews, this book provides close readings on established and emerging Chinese diasporic poets' work by incorporating the writers' own reflections on their craft through interviews with some o...
From childhood memories, fairytales, taboos, deep-rooted faiths to translated truths, Jennifer Wong's dream-like and surreal second collection reveals the changing landscapes of Hong Kong and modern China. "This collection establishes Jennifer Wong as Hong Kong's finest English language poet of the younger generation without a shadow of doubt." -- Mike Ingham ..". handled with great sharpness and delicacy." -- George Szirtes
Biography of Jennifer Wong, currently Writer in residence at Lingnan University, previously Sr Public Affairs Officer / Assistant Public Affairs Manager at Swire Properties.
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A Study Guide (prepared by Barbara Chiappetta). covers each chapter and appendix with reviews of the learning objectives, outlines of the chapters, and summaries of chapter materials. It also provides additional problems and solutions..
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This document contains letters from women from racial minorities and aboriginal women about their experiences in Canada. The letters are grouped into clusters. The first cluster of letters talk about the land and society. The second cluster contains letters which speak about the past and which express the pain of growing up, of specific events, abuses, indignities, and unhappiness. The third cluster is a partial selection of letters describing immigrant experience. The fourth cluster is about taking a stance: it features letters which express anger, or which describe the writers' activism. The final cluster contain letters which draw lessons or record events.