Publications

Publication details [#59017]

Moutinho, Ricardo. 2014. Redefining the teacher's positioning as gatekeeper in a Portuguese as a Foreign Language class in Macau. Journal of multicultural discourses 9 (2) : 119–133.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language teaching | power | student | teacher

Language as a subject

Portuguese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This ethnographic analysis of teacher-student classroom interaction in a Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) class in a Luso-Chinese Macau primary school, discusses the renegotiation of the institutionally imposed teacher power (/gatekeeping) positioning.