Boys and Foreign Language Learning

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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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.

• English
• gender
• Language Learning
• learning

'....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

• Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  Jo Carr

• The University of Western Australia, Australia

  Anne Pauwels

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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