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De-centering the anthropocentric worldview in language textbooks: A posthumanist call for discursive reparations for sustainable ELT

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101397

Waqar Ali Shah , Qammar-un-nisa Jatoi , Ume Rabab Shah

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Linguistic justice: Addressing linguistic variation of black children in teaching and learning

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101382

Julie A. Washington , Iheoma U. Iruka

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From a learner to a user? Exploring learning in language counselling through the lens of linguistic mudes

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381

Fergal Bradley

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“We feel excluded and isolated”: Multilingual international students’ emotions and agency in an EMI program

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361

Juan Dong, Yawen Han

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Reconceptualizing literacy and disrupting Whiteness: Multiliteracies autobiographies in teacher education

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101378

Monica Shank Lauwo

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“Did you have some kind of blow to the head?”: Spanish heritage language learners, language ideologies and oral corrective feedback

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380

Sergio Loza

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Toward a theory of transgressive classroom language

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356

Faythe Beauchemin , Beth Krone , Emily Machado , Kongji Qin , Anne Valauri , Paul Hartman

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“He drank too much Gatorade”: Exploring learner conceptions in scientific reasoning from a social semiotic perspective

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377

Chunhong Liu , Megan K. Barker , Qinghua Chen , Maurice M.W. Cheng , Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan , Angel M.Y. Lin

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Pre-service language teachers’ collaborative management of the shared video-mediated interactional space for pedagogical task design

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394

Ufuk Balaman

{"title":"Pre-service language teachers’ collaborative management of the shared video-mediated interactional space for pedagogical task design","authors":"Ufuk Balaman","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital literacy practices in multimodal interactional spaces, including video-mediated settings, are largely being recognized as a rich domain of research inquiry in pre-service language teacher education. This study presents findings from a telecollaborative partnership project in which small groups of pre-service language teachers collaboratively design, receive feedback for, implement, and reflect on telecollaborative tasks in and through video-mediated interactions. Using multimodal conversation analysis as the research methodology, the study describes on a micro-longitudinal basis how the collaborative design processes on an online task design tool, the DigiTask web app, create opportunities for pre-service teachers’ exploration of the technological affordances of video-mediated interaction while also interactionally managing the complex pedagogical, social interactional, and digital literacy practices in situ. More specifically, this study shows how pre-service teachers’ collaborative design-relevant actions facilitate the emergence of a digital literacy practice (i.e., shared control of a shared screen). Following the emergence of the practice, the teacher educator introduces the data-led evidence for the emergent practice in a large group video-mediated teacher education classroom, thus multiplying the practice within the larger scope of the project. The findings bring new insights into pre-service language teacher education and video-mediated interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Translanguaging-informed beliefs and practices of Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers upon completion of an online professional development

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Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395

Allison Briceño , Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica , Sara Rutherford-Quach , Marisa Ruiz , Kathy Stoehr , Qican Sunny Cao

{"title":"Translanguaging-informed beliefs and practices of Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers upon completion of an online professional development","authors":"Allison Briceño , Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica , Sara Rutherford-Quach , Marisa Ruiz , Kathy Stoehr , Qican Sunny Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As part of a U.S. Department of Education grant, we developed over 60 hours of online professional development (OPD) modules in Spanish. This mixed methods study: (1) explores Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers’ (MSBTs') shifts in language ideologies before and after completing the OPD, and (2) investigates if and how OPD resources support implementation of practices that reflect translanguaging pedagogy. Data sources include pre- and post-OPD survey results and semi-structured interviews. The two surveys were analyzed based on their scales; the interviews were analyzed iteratively using inductive and deductive codes. Survey analysis showed positive shifts in MSBTs’ beliefs and increased confidence regarding their ability to implement culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. The participants evidenced the use of knowledge and tools from the OPD to overcome filters (Bacon, 2020) to translate their language ideologies into practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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