Publications

Publication details [#32789]

Norton, Bonny and Farah Kamal. 2003. The Imagined Communities of English Language Learners in a Pakistani School. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 2 (4) : 301–317.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literacy | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

1534-8458

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This article reports on a study on the imagined communities of English language learners in a Pakistani middle-school in Karachi, in the wake of 9/11, dealing with the students' perceptions of literacy and the English language, and their hopes for the future.