Language and Intercultural Communication最新文献

{"title":"Asian students in American higher education: negotiating multilingual identities in the era of superdiversity and nationalism","authors":"Qianqian Zhang‐Wu","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2175846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2175846","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focused on the experiences of three Asian undergraduate students at a private urban institution in the United States. The findings indicate that the participants' racial, cultural and linguistic identities are dynamic and complex, echoing features indicated by the concept of superdiversity. Yet, under the influences of the rising nationalism and the strong grip of monolingualism, participants have been constantly under the pressure from English-only ideologies and the so-called forever-foreigner stereotype against Asian Americans. This study sheds light on rethinking higher education teaching and learning from the perspectives of marginalized students in the era simultaneously featuring superdiversity and nationalism.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41699834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education","authors":"Terry A. Osborn, M. Wagner","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2175847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2175847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although language education should be ideally positioned to help students develop a nuanced understanding of languages, cultures, nations/countries, and identities these concepts have often been conflated in practice (see, e.g. Reagan & Osborn, 2021). This can result in othering in depictions of speakers of the language being learned (e.g. Osborn, 2021; Palfreyman, 2005) and delegitimizing certain language use(r)s. We share preliminary results from a study in which language educators who adopted critical approaches, such as teaching for social justice (Osborn, 2006) or intercultural citizenship (Byram, 2008, have addressed these questions in practice and discuss ways to disrupt harmful practices.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47319154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘I need to know what to say when children are crying’: a language needs analysis of Scottish primary educators learning Arabic","authors":"Maria Grazia Imperiale, G. Fassetta, Sahar Alshobaki","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2168010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2168010","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the language needs analysis which informed the development of a beginner Arabic language course for Scottish primary education staff who work with Arabic-speaking refugee children and families. Interviews and focus group were carried out with: Scottish educators; Arabic-speaking refugee children; and parents/carers. They highlighted the following language needs for the course: (a) language for hospitality; (b) language for wellbeing; and (c) language for school. In this article we highlight the language needs as identified by refugee pupils and their families and we start a discussion on the importance of teaching a refugee language within formal educational settings.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44193285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times","authors":"Wenwen Zhang","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135704526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters","authors":"R. Fawzy, Reham Farouk El Shazly","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2159036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2159036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on VR affordances and its relevant discourse of embodiment, immersion and engagement, Indigenous Futurisms (IF) challenges mainstream stereotypes of indigenous cultures. This article explores how the VR movie Crow: The Legend mediates an intercultural experience of IF. The framework proposed for understanding the virtually-mediated IF intercultural experience is grounded in the integration of SF-MDA and postphenomenology. The suggested theoretical integration interprets the VR embodied affordances of navigation, body movement, and hand gestures. The dialogue established in Crow between the interactants and VR technology unravels the cultural particularities of futurisms' notions of ‘non-linear temporality,' ‘selfdetermination,' ‘self-discovery,' ‘selflessness' and ‘diversity’.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49032673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges","authors":"Beatriz Peña Dix, J. Corbett","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2166281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2166281","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of LAIC brings together a selection of articles, revised and refereed, that, with one exception, grew out of presentations delivered at the 2021 conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC), on Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges. This conference was remarkable in a number of ways. For the first time in its two-decade history, the IALIC conference was hosted in South America, by the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in Colombia. While the organisers originally hoped that this would be an in-person event, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ultimately forced the conference online. This turned out to be a mixed blessing. While IALIC participants were denied the opportunity to visit Bogotá in person and enjoy the hospitality of what would have been an excellent conference venue in the Universidad de los Andes, the number of international participants increased both in their number and their diversity. With more than 200 online contributions coming from all over the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, the 2021 IALIC conference became a truly global critical space in which to explore the nature of interculturality. The conference theme, conventionally broad in scope, invited participants to revisit and critique our theoretical and practical assumptions as scholars, educators and practitioners of interculturality, particularly in times of crisis. The contributors accepted the invitation with gusto, addressing and contesting established models of language, intercultural communication, and the modes by which we research and measure our outputs. Among the plenaries, Claire Kramsch raised specific concerns about the ways in which educators and students might engage in political debate around conflict in the language classroom, focusing on case studies of anti-Asian prejudice in the United States, the commemoration of Hiroshima, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and attitudes in Italy towards Muslim immigrants. Her discussion was complemented by Anne-Marie Truscott de Mejía, who reported on an international research project, carried out in Bogotá and in Paris, aimed at helping in-service language teachers and learners to grasp the complexity of intercultural relationships, with a particular reference to gender relations and the urban-rural divide. Emergent themes from the conference presentations included the challenges and affordances of researching multilingually, post-qualitative research methodologies, innovative ways of composing intercultural autoethnographies, arts-based research approaches, and bio-narratives. Appropriately, for the first IALIC conference in South America, a prominent theme was the decolonisation of language pedagogy, curricula and materials, especially when the major languages taught are potent symbols, not only of colonial hegemony but also of a scientific and economic positivism that holds out the promise of future prosperity. It ","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48863831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chair's note","authors":"Cristina Ros i Solé","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2166280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2166280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46708598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university","authors":"Z. Huang","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162064","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I use arts methods to explore the concept ‘intercultural mindfulness' as performed in students’ meaning-making about their intercultural experience at a UK university. The findings identify some less discussed qualities for mindfulness such as affective openness, embodied openness, and ethical-oriented openness, generosity, energy/effort, and liberated freedom. The study addresses a critical, theoretical ground for understanding and applying mindfulness in intercultural studies. Moving beyond the common focuses on cognitive skills or competence, it enriches the existing understanding of intercultural mindfulness by being attentive to the humanistic, affective, ethical, and ideological dimensions of mindfulness.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49334194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 and Interculturality: revisiting assumptions about intercultural competence and criticality development in Modern Language degree programmes","authors":"Elinor Parks","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The initial response to Covid-19 exposed widespread racism and Sinophobia across the world, which contributed to a rethinking of equality and diversity in Higher Education (HE) and beyond. Within Modern Languages, much attention has been placed on decolonising the curriculum. The death of George Floyd in 2020 further contributed to an increased awareness of the need to rethink racism and challenge current practice within the curriculum. This paper re-examines the findings of a doctoral study exploring students' development of Intercultural Competence (IC) and criticality in Modern Languages with the aim of revisiting ways in which students' intercultural development can be defined and fostered in Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49219310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘ … vayan a San Miguel de Allende, además lleven su visa y su diccionario los que no sepan hablar inglés pues ya se han apropiado de todo los gringos.’ The discursive struggle for interculturality in a gentrified hybrid Mexican city","authors":"C. Anderson, Ireri Armenta Delgado","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on interculturality in the discursive construction of the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende that is culturally hybrid due to Americanisation and gentrification caused by North American migration and tourism. Constructing their own community as ‘expats’, this homogenous group produces and reproduces a dominant discourse that normalises Americanisation and gentrification. There is, however, a resistant discourse from multiple voices, both North American and Mexican, that problematises this hybridity in terms of negative consequences for local Mexicans of rising costs, displacement, and a sense of alienation, particularly felt in how English has become a lingua franca.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45374591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}