Language Awareness in the School Curriculum explores a new approach to teaching literacy in a multicultural classroom by seeking to make students more sensitive to the role language plays in everyday life. It challenges them to ask questions about language, its origins and its location in the world’s language ‘map’. The learning process of LA includes the reconstruction of language experience and an opening for new and culturally diverse experiences in the classroom.

The authors examine such issues as cultural dimensions of LA, language variety in the classroom, LA and information technology, literacy in the global village, minority rights and language policies, storytelling in the curriculum, the English literature curriculum and standards for the English Language Arts.

Language Awareness in the Curriculum offers a unique introduction to culturally significant issues affecting the nature of language learning in a multicultural classroom.

WITOLD TULASIEWICZ (University of Cambridge), an author and co-author of eight recent books on education, including Cultural Identity and Educational Policy, co-edited with Colin Brock, World Religions and Educational Practice, co-edited with Cho-yee To, and Education in a Single Europe, is an internationally-known scholar of comparative studies in teacher education, multicultural education and language awareness.

JOSEPH ZAJDA (Australian Catholic University) teaches the English Method, Learning and Education and Society courses. His recent books include Learning and Teaching, Education and Society and Excellence and Quality in Education (co-edited with Nick. Kach and Kazim. Bacchus, University of Alberta).