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This chapter discusses the critical issues that have been raised by researchers and practitioners in the fields of EAP, academic literacies and genre-based pedagogies. All of these fields are closely related to the work of LAC and CLIL. I shall discuss why addressing critical perspectives is both necessary and important in developing the theory and practice of LAC and CLIL if we are committed to addressing issues of social justice, diversity and creativity while at the same time trying to help students to access the communicative conventions and genres of the powerful elite in academia and society.

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    Angel M. Y. Lin

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Lin, A.M.Y. (2016). Critical Perspectives. In: Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1802-2_8

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