Boys and foreign language learning
Subtitle: real boys don't do languages
By: Jo Carr, Anne Pauwels.
Contributors: Pauwels, Anne.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching.; Sex differences in education.; Language and languages -- Sex differences.; Boys -- Education.
Description: "How do boys from the major English-dominant communities of the world explain their apparent lack of interest in the foreign languages option? Is this a 'curriculum misalignment' issue? A reaction to language-teaching approaches? Tension between performed masculinities and language practice?" "This book explores the boys-languages relationship as explained by boys themselves. Based on data collected from more than 200 boys in different secondary schools, it identifies key dimensions of this unsuccessful relationship."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.