Recovering Language in Higher Education

Laetitia Monbec is a Lecturer and the Director of Scholarship in the Language Centre at the University of Leeds, UK. She has taught academic literacies and EAP in a range of disciplines, colour semiotics in Design, and published on Systemic Functional Semiotics/Genre approaches to EAP, academic literacy in Nursing, and critical thinking.Alex Ding is Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds, UK,  where he co-leads the MA in Teaching English for Academic Purposes. He is co-author of The English for Academic Purposes Practitioner: Operating on the Edge of Academia and recently co-edited Social Theory for English for Academic Purposes and Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Breaking The Illusio.- Chapter 2. Language ontology as illusion.- Chapter 3. Illusio and Ethos in Academia.- Chapter 4. Changing the world from the classroom: Pedagogy as illusion.- Part II: Recovery.- Chapter 5. Heresy, Ethics, and Scholarship.- Chapter 6. Educating for Agency and Solidarity.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.