English in urban classrooms : a multimodal perspective on teaching and learning /
Kress, Gunther R.
London ; New York, N.Y. : RoutledgeFalmer,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and index.
Introduction -- A social and political framework for thinking about English -- A new approach to understanding school English: multimodal semiotics -- The English classroom as a multimodal sign -- The organization of time in the English classroom -- The pedagogic construction of 'ability' in school English -- The social production of character as an entity of school English -- Orchestrating a debate -- Only write down what you need to know: annotation for what? -- The textual cycle of the English classroom -- And so to some final comments.
English language
Urban high schools
English teachers