Foreword; Author's Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Speaking and Identity; Chapter 2 Language, Identity and Audibility: A New Theoretical Framing; Chapter 3 On Leaving Newnham: The End of Arrival; Chapter 4 Tina and John: The Self as Different; Chapter 5 Milena: Being Friends with Everyone; Chapter 6 Nora and Alicia: Speaking with the Foreigners; Chapter 7 Audibility and Institutional Deafness; References; Index
Summary
A study of the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. It raises questions about language and identity in schools and should be of interest to researchers, teachers and students