International students and their raciolinguistic sensemaking of aural employability in Canadian universities

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2022-0067

Vijay A. Ramjattan

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Abstract International students in Canadian universities are deemed valuable immigrants for the Canadian nation as they are equipped with formal credentials easily recognizable for local employers. Despite having desired technical skills and knowledge, the English of these students is perceived as hindering their ability to voice this expertise. This then forces international students to think about how language can affect their employability during their studies. Drawing on a narrative analysis of the experiences of 14 international students in Ontario and focussing on speech accent, this article explores how they make sense of aural employability, the ability to be heard as employable, through participating in Canadian higher education. The students connected aural employability with ‘sounding Canadian’ through raciolinguistic sensemaking, a type of sensemaking that interprets the linguistic world with various ideologies of whiteness. Such sensemaking speaks to how Canadian universities, as sites of workplace language learning, cannot be divorced from the white settler logics that pervade these institutions.

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加拿大大学国际学生及其听觉就业能力的种族语言学意义

摘要加拿大大学的国际学生被认为是加拿大国家的宝贵移民，因为他们拥有当地雇主容易识别的正式证书。尽管这些学生拥有所需的技术技能和知识，但他们的英语被认为阻碍了他们表达这种专业知识的能力。这迫使国际学生思考语言如何影响他们在学习期间的就业能力。本文对安大略省14名国际学生的经历进行了叙述性分析，并以口音为重点，探讨了他们如何通过参加加拿大高等教育来理解听觉上的就业能力，即被倾听为可就业的能力。学生们通过种族伪装的感觉制造将听觉就业能力与“听起来像加拿大人”联系起来，这种感觉制造用各种白人意识形态来解释语言世界。这种感觉制造表明，加拿大大学作为职场语言学习的场所，不能脱离这些机构中普遍存在的白人定居者逻辑。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.