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Yung, Kevin Wai Ho; Yuan, Rui – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Private tutoring has become a widespread phenomenon worldwide, partly due to the global trend of marketisation and commodification of education. Informed by a discursive view of identity and through multimodal discourse analysis, this study aims to unveil part of the shadow education discourse by investigating the identities of 41 English language…
Descriptors: Tutors, Private Education, Tutoring, Professional Identity
Fairbrother, Gregory P. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This article discusses citizenship education, education policy and discourse to explore their relations with the exercise of power in society. Taking the case of 1990 and 1997 legislative debates on citizenship education policy in Hong Kong, it briefly surveys the substantive arguments favouring or opposing the retention of government controls…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Scollon, Ron; Bhatia, Vijay; Li, David; Yung, Vicki – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Five ethnographic studies located genres of public discourse most central to university students, thus enhancing understanding of those genres as a significant influence on students' use of language. The problem of divergence between school-based genres and genres of public discourse were addressed. Results highlighted are audience roles, sites of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Students, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Bruce, Nigel – 2000
This paper reports on the strategies used by an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teacher to help law students whose first language is Chinese in an English-for-law course learn and understand how to negotiate legal texts and ordinances and connect them with the concerns of people in the real world. The example of the recently enacted Human Organ…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chinese, College Students, Content Area Reading