Critical Perspectives on Language Education: Australia and the Asia Pacific

Chapter 1: Introduction By Katie Dunworth and Grace Zhang.- Chapter 2: Occupying the 'Third Space': Perspectives and Experiences of Asian English Language Teachers By Toni Dobinson.- Chapter 3: Changing Perspectives of Literacy, Identity and Motivation: Implications for Language Education By Paul Mercieca.- Chapter 4: Constructing Meaning from the Unfamiliar: Implications for Critical Intercultural Education By Ilan Zagoria.- Chapter 5: Can Teachers Know Learners' Minds? Teacher Empathy and Learner Body Language in English Language Teaching By Maggie McAlinden.- Chapter 6: Code-switching and Indigenous Workplace Learning: Cross-cultural Competence Training or Cultural Assimilation? By Ellen Grote, Rhonda Oliver and Judith Rochecouste.- Chapter 7: The Retention of Year 11/12 Chinese in Australian Schools: A Relevance Theory Perspective By Grace Zhang and Qian Gong.- CHAPTER 8: Towards the Establishment of a WACE Examination in Japanese as a Heritage Language: Critical Perspectives By Hiroshi Hasegawa.- Chapter 9: A Place for Second Generation Japanese Speaking Children in Perth: Can they Maintain Japanese as a Community Language? By Kyoko Kawasaki.- CHAPTER 10: Tamil Language in Multilingual Singapore: Key Issues in Teaching and Maintaining a Minority Language By Rajeni Rajan.- Chapter 11: Functional English and Chinese as Mediums of Instruction in a Higher Institution in Hong Kong By Zhichang Xu.- Subject index.