Situating College English
Subtitle: Lessons from an American University (Series in Language and Ideology)
Contributors: Evan Carton (Editor); Alan W. Friedman (Editor)
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: May 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780897894609
Subjects: Language Teaching & Learning (Other Than ELT); Philosophy of education; Universities / polytechnics; Higher; English Composition; Education / Teaching; English; Education; USA; Linguistics; General; Secondary; Education / Secondary; English philology; Study and teaching (Higher); United States
First sentence: Contemporary U.S. universities increasingly experience competing, and sometimes mutually exclusive, demands and expectations: elitist and democratic, restricted entry and open admissions, producing the country's leadership and addressing basic literacy, serving business and military interests and standing above them, experimenting and preserving.