Publications

Publication details [#48976]

Pickford, Steve. 2008. Dimensions of 'Vernacular' Pedagogy. Language & Education 22 (1) : 48–61.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | colonialism | face maintenance | language of instruction | vernacular

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This sociolinguistic and ethnographic study explores indigenous classroom interaction in a Papua New Guinea lower grades primary classroom, and describes how local face and community theories mediate classroom talk via social alignment and cohesion discourses.