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1. Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education

   international perspectives

   Edited by Phil Benson, Alice Chik

   The integration of popular culture into education is a pervasive theme at all educational levels and in all subject areas. This book explores how ‘popular culture’ and ‘education’ come together and interact in research and practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The case studies in this...

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research

   By Gary Barkhuizen, Phil Benson, Alice Chik

   Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

   This text provides an entry-level introduction to narrative inquiry methods, grounded in empirical research within the fields of language teaching and learning. The book discusses basic concepts, explains how and why these methods have been used in language teaching and learning research,...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

   By Phil Benson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

   This unique work challenges the assumption that dictionaries act as objective records of our language, and instead argues that the English dictionary is a fundamentally ethnocentric work. Using theoretical, historical and empirical analyses, Phil Benson shows how English dictionaries have filtered...

   Published January 10th 2001 by Routledge