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Boys and Foreign Language Learning

Real Boys Don't Do Languages

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Jo Carr

    1. Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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  2. Anne Pauwels

    1. The University of Western Australia, Australia

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 1-4

  3. Setting the scene

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 5-19

  4. The gendering of languages education

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 20-53

  5. Boys talking

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 54-88

  6. Other boys talking

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 89-110

  7. Teachers talking

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 111-149

  8. Girls talking about boys

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 150-163

  9. Reading between the lines

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 164-190

  10. Changing thinking, transforming action

    • Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels
    Pages 191-207

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 208-226
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About this book

The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves.

Reviews

'....the discussion is thorough, lucid and thought provoking...one of the virtues of this book is its insistence that, even in a single society, the effects of culture and gender are neither uniform nor monolithic...For both researchers and practitioners, their book has much to offer...'

- Deborah Cameron, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Authors and Affiliations

  • Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Jo Carr

  • The University of Western Australia, Australia

    Anne Pauwels

About the authors

JO CARR is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research work focuses on the interconnection between language, culture and identity, with a particular interest in critical analysis of second/foreign language teaching and learning.

ANNE PAUWELS is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on the intersection between language, gender and ethnicity as well as on feminist language planning in a global context. She is author of Women Changing Language.

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