TY - GEN AU - Vea,Peseti Tupou'ila ED - University of Waikato. TI - Implementing critical literacy in a Tongan bilingual classroom U1 - 370.117/5 PY - 2010/// CY - New Zealand PB - University of Waikato KW - Bilingualism KW - Tonga KW - Critical pedagogy KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) KW - Education, Bilingual KW - Language arts (Secondary) KW - Social aspects KW - Literacy KW - lcgft KW - Academic theses N1 - "A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of Master of Education."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-201); Appendices -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Literature review -- Chapter 3: Context of the study -- Chapter 4: Methodology -- Chapter 5: Findings -- Chapter 6: Discussion of findings -- References N2 - "This report describes a research study which trialled a unit of work designed for senior high school levels in a Tongan bilingual classroom. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the appropriateness and possible benefits of using critical literacy as a teaching strategy to teach literature in bilingual classrooms in Tonga. A critical literacy approach is relatively new in Tonga, so the study set out to test if this approach would contribute to making the teaching of English more innovative and student-centred"--Abstract UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5021 ER -