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Issues of interdiscursivity in the commercialisation of professional practice: the case of English language teaching ...
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Abstract:
This study focuses on how commercialisation affects professional practices, specifically those of English language teachers. The study takes as its setting the private English language teaching sector in Australia, known as the ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) sector. The research question is 'How does commercialisation affect the professional practices of teachers who work in ELICOS colleges in Australia?'. -- To investigate this question, a "multi-perspectived" (Candlin 1997, p. xiv) approach to discourse analysis is developed. This seeks to address the implications of Cicourel's (1982, 1992, 1996) call for "ecological validity" (1982, pp. 1ff) in social and sociolinguistic research. These implications include the need to account for interrelations between language and context, for macro and micro social phenomena, for choices in research methodology, for the position of the researcher within discourse analysis, and, more generally, for the social-situatedness of discourse ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19433510
https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/Issues_of_interdiscursivity_in_the_commercialisation_of_professional_practice_the_case_of_English_language_teaching/19433510
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