... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Critical literacy English teaching Critical language awareness Dialects Language ideologies Modern scientific study has forced us to abandon many of the older commonly held views of language and has provided us with new principles...

... language to present information, structure text, infuse judgment and evaluation, engage with and position the reader and express epistemic commitment to knowledge claims. Originality/value 5Es offer teachers a new heuristic for text exploration that develops students’ critical language awareness...

... re-use rights only English teaching Literacy and identity Critical language awareness English dialects English language variation One recent spring afternoon, on the blossoming campus of a university in the Midwestern USA, faculty members in education engaged in earnest discussion...