Doing-English-lessons in the reproduction or transformation of social worlds?

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Abstract

This article tells a story of four classrooms situated in different socioeconomic backgrounds. Drawing on the theoretical notions of cultural capital, habitus, symbolic violence, and creative, discursive agency as analytic tools, the story focuses on the classroom dilemmas in which students and teachers found themselves as well as the creative, discursive strategies they used to cope with these dilemmas. The implications of their strategies are discussed with reference to whether the students and teachers were doing-English-lessons in the reproduction or in the transformation of the students' social worlds. Copyright © 1999 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)393-412
JournalTESOL Quarterly
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1999

Citation

Lin, A. M. Y. (1999). Doing-English-lessons in the reproduction or transformation of social worlds? TESOL Quarterly, 33(3), 393-412. https://doi.org/10.2307/3587671

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