Critical Perspectives on Language Education

Chapter 1: Introduction By Katie Dunworth and Grace Zhang.- Chapter 2: Occupying the 'Third Space': Perspectives and Experiences of Asian English Language Teachers By Toni Dobinson.- Chapter 3: Changing Perspectives of Literacy, Identity and Motivation: Implications for Language Education By Paul Mercieca.- Chapter 4: Constructing Meaning from the Unfamiliar: Implications for Critical Intercultural Education By Ilan Zagoria.- Chapter 5: Can Teachers Know Learners' Minds? Teacher Empathy and Learner Body Language in English Language Teaching By Maggie McAlinden.- Chapter 6: Code-switching and Indigenous Workplace Learning: Cross-cultural Competence Training or Cultural Assimilation? By Ellen Grote, Rhonda Oliver and Judith Rochecouste.- Chapter 7: The Retention of Year 11/12 Chinese in Australian Schools: A Relevance Theory Perspective By Grace Zhang and Qian Gong.- CHAPTER 8: Towards the Establishment of a WACE Examination in Japanese as a Heritage Language: Critical Perspectives By Hiroshi Hasegawa.- Chapter 9: A Place for Second Generation Japanese Speaking Children in Perth: Can they Maintain Japanese as a Community Language? By Kyoko Kawasaki.- CHAPTER 10: Tamil Language in Multilingual Singapore: Key Issues in Teaching and Maintaining a Minority Language By Rajeni Rajan.- Chapter 11: Functional English and Chinese as Mediums of Instruction in a Higher Institution in Hong Kong By Zhichang Xu.- Subject index.

"This book, which brings together several perspectives on language education, mostly from Western Australia, consists of eleven chapters. ... this volume makes a useful addition to the scholarship about language education. Some of the chapters will be of particular interest to scholars interested in critical education, language contact and language maintenance." (Achilleas I. Kostoulas, The Linguist List, July, 2015)