Language ValuePub Date : 2013-12-26DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.8
Ana Bocanegra-Valle
{"title":"Christa van der Walt. Multilingual Higher Education. Beyond English Medium Orientations","authors":"Ana Bocanegra-Valle","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.8","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by Ana Bocanegra-ValleUniversidad de Cadiz, Spain \u0000 \u0000Multilingual Higher Education. Beyond English Medium Orientations deals with the complexity of learning and teaching in multilingual higher education (HE) environments. Multilingual Matters has included this volume in the series “Bilingual Education and Bilingualism”, the same series that includes the latest books published on Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) (see Fortanet-Gomez 2013) or English-medium instruction in HE (see Doiz et al. 2013). [...]","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"5 1","pages":"152-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2013-12-26DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.7
E. Milne, D. S. García
{"title":"‘Does everybody understand?’ Teacher questions across disciplines in English-mediated university lectures: An exploratory study","authors":"E. Milne, D. S. García","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.7","url":null,"abstract":"This small-scale study attempts to analyse the role of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in three different university lectures across disciplines. Following previous research (Crawford Camiciottoli 2004, Dafouz 2011, Dalton-Puffer 2007), the focus is placed on teacher discourse and, more specifically, teacher questions as fundamental tools that articulate classroom talk and prime strategies that promote interaction and co-construct meanings (Chang 2012, Sanchez Garcia 2010). Our corpus includes four hours of teaching practice from Spanish EMI lessons where participants are non-native speakers of the vehicular language. Preliminary results suggest that questions tend to be greatly exploited discursive features and that confirmation checks and display questions seem to predominate over all other types of questions used in the classroom. Concurrently, the study suggests that there seem to be more commonalities than differences in the use of questions across disciplines. Additionally, it can be stated that lecturers need to be trained to benefit from the resources offered by their own discourse in order to facilitate students' content and language learning.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"5 1","pages":"129-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2013-12-26DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.2
J. González, J. Andrés
{"title":"Building bridges between different levels of education: Methodological proposals for CLIL at university","authors":"J. González, J. Andrés","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes a research project carried out at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Having identified a lack of communication between different levels of the education system, the co-authors have carried out qualitative research (“long interviews” with Primary and Secondary CLIL teachers) in order to identify the best methodological guidelines to be followed in CLIL classes. These guidelines have been summarized in a CLIL-methodology Decalogue to be used at the Tertiary Level.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2013-12-26DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.6
M. Woźniak
{"title":"CLIL in Pharmacy: A case of collaboration between content and language lecturers","authors":"M. Woźniak","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper documents collaborative work between content and language lecturers for CLIL at a Spanish university. It focuses on the perspectives and concerns of ten Pharmacy lecturers who integrate credits in English within their content subjects, as reflected during a group discussion and in individual questionnaires. The study reveals that the lecturers are motivated and have positive opinions about both the project and the collaboration. In spite of some years of CLIL experience, they still need support and their main difficulties are related to the linguistic side of CLIL and its assessment. Given the differences in objectives in each subject, further collaboration with the language lecturer should focus on addressing the specific needs and concerns of particular lecturers. More collaboration between content lecturers is also needed to define the aims and outcomes of particular activities and to sequence them properly so as to offer a well-balanced CLIL degree programme.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"5 1","pages":"107-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2013-01-01DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.1
Miguel Francisco Ruiz Garrido, Mari Carmen Campoy Cubillo
{"title":"From the editors: Clil at university: research and developments","authors":"Miguel Francisco Ruiz Garrido, Mari Carmen Campoy Cubillo","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2013.5.1","url":null,"abstract":"In recent times, the relevance of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) at most educational levels, especially in the university world, has experienced an exponential increase, as recent publications show (Doiz et al. 2013, Fortanet-Gomez 2013, Llinares et al. 2012, or Smit and Dafouz 2012a, among others). Teaching in English seems to be a popular topic nowadays, but it is also a need. The articles included in this issue show three main common features of CLIL and its role in today?s higher education: the process of internationalization of the educational system, the need for a language policy, and the fact that English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as a field of research and teaching as well as ESP practitioners are all very much concerned with CLIL.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.6
E. Ponce
{"title":"Memory and language in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of mushrooms","authors":"E. Ponce","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms (1994) highlights the difficulties encountered by Japanese when immigrating and living in Canada. This essay focuses on how Hiromi Goto uses linguistic codes to construct cultural identities and to stress the arbitrary nature of stereotypes. It analyzes the importance of memory and translation, which can be seen as both necessary and alienating. It also examines the importance of language and storytelling in the process of constructing one's identity. I. INTRODUCTION The remarkable literary activity in Canada since the Second World War has been recognized and celebrated by literary criticism throughout the world. The relationship between collective identity and the perception and representation of the Other constitutes an essential question of contemporary cultural and literary discourse. The literary representation of ethnic minorities is extremely important in order to understand current issues about multiculturalism, nationalism, integration. It is even more significant when considering the emergence of authors writing from within that cultural minority experience. Canadian history and its present situation are rewritten by these new voices that seek their place in the country. As Mari Sasano has pointed out, although the notion of multiculturalism implies the acknowledgement of different cultures, a distinction is generally made between \"typical Canadian\" and \"multicultural\", the latter consisting of \"those minorities that are seen as additional to but outside of typical white middle-class majority\" (Sasano 1998: 39). Through the analysis of Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), this study aims to examine how Asian-Canadian minorities are representing themselves and how language is used in the construction of social and cultural identities.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"4 1","pages":"70-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.4
María Henríquez-Betancor
{"title":"Anzaldúa and 'the new mestiza': A Chicana dives into collective identity","authors":"María Henríquez-Betancor","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I analyze how Gloria Anzaldua’s seventh essay in Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza , titled “ La conciencia de la mestiza : Towards a New Consciousness”, condenses and portrays a development towards the mestiza consciousness presented in the first six essays in the book. This is a well-structured as well as fluid process in which each step guides us in a complex identity-building awareness. This process is an inner journey as well as an evolution in the public scene where the “new mestiza ” has to revise and reinvent herself in several ways in order to acquire “the mestiza consciousness”. This essay is also a clear example in which Anzaldua represents three voices: the “I”, the “we” and the “she.” These voices are one of Anzaldua’s strategies for diving into what she understands as her collective identity as a Chicana and as a “new mestiza. ” As will be shown in this article, the author moves among these voices for various purposes of identity-construction.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"4 1","pages":"38-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71368999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.5
Anna M. Brígido-Corachán
{"title":"Wordarrows: The performative power of language in N. Scott Momaday's non-fiction work","authors":"Anna M. Brígido-Corachán","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words . It specifically tackles performative conceptions of language in the Kiowa storytelling tradition, where words are experienced as speech acts that have the power to intervene in surrounding realities. Taking into account 20th century ethno-cultural and linguistic policies in the United States, the article also reflects on the role indigenous languages may play in contemporary Native American Literature, which has most often been written in English.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"4 1","pages":"56-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.8
Nephtalí De León
{"title":"The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown)","authors":"Nephtalí De León","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"When the rich steal from the poor it is called business,when the poor protest it is called violence.When the natives follow their millennial migrations across America,they are called undocumented illegal aliens.When the Europeans, invade, commit genocide and steal America,they call themselves immigrants and pilgrims.The united Nations and the Red Cross are concernedand sometimes respond to atrocities throughout the world,never to atrocities in the United States of Americaand its borderland wall of death more than 1000 miles long,so long the boundaries can be seen from outer space!","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"4 1","pages":"107-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71369610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language ValuePub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.2
Kalenda C. Eaton
{"title":"Diasporic dialogues: The role of gender, language, and revision in the neo-slave narrative","authors":"Kalenda C. Eaton","doi":"10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/LANGUAGEV.2012.4.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20 th and 21 st centuries, yet set during an imagined period of American slavery or indentured servitude. In these novels the authors, usually African-descended, depict slavery and/or plantation life, generally, to privilege the experiences of the slave. The process of actively writing against traditional plantation narratives of the 18 th and 19 th centuries can liberate slave histories and allows silenced actors to speak. However, in this paper, I argue that there is a danger of further marginalization when History is the platform for creative expression. I examine two novels whose authors employ the use of satire to discuss slave experience and by doing so, I explore how the images of Black slave and servant women can be either devalued or empowered depending on authorial representation and intent.","PeriodicalId":36244,"journal":{"name":"Language Value","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71368986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}