{"title":"Frequency and framing keywords in EMI: A comparison of two lecturers","authors":"Joseph Siegel","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101422","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>English medium instruction (EMI) courses can present challenges for both lecturers and students. The lecturer’s planning and delivery of lecture content, especially in terms of spoken output, has rarely been investigated. This study focused on an analysis of two university lectures from different disciplines. In pre-lecture discussions with the researcher, lecturers had indicated a set of key concepts and important words that they expected the students to recognize and learn more about during the lectures. Based on those lists, the lecture transcripts were scrutinized in terms of keyword frequency as well as in relation to Sinclair and Coulthard’s (1975) framework for understanding classroom discourse and speaker output, which allowed patterns of keyword use within lecture discourse to be identified. Comparative results from the analysis showed keywords being more frequent in the Sociology lecture than in the Robotics class. In terms of patterns of lecturer output, the majority of keywords were included in the categories “Informative” and “Comment”; however, quantitative and proportional differences in these patterns were also observed. Practical advice for EMI lecturers in relation to keyword frequency and framing is offered to account for language proficiency levels of teachers and/or students in similar higher education contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101422"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863829","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}
{"title":"Latina dual language teacher candidates’ language ideologies in flux: Disrupting dominant narratives on the path to becoming teachers","authors":"Patricia Ferreyra","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101419","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101419","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging research on language ideologies is increasingly concentrating on Latinx bilingual Dual Language Teacher Candidates (DLTCs), an underrepresented demographics in scholarly work. However, shifts in their language ideologies over time have been understudied. DLTCs enact and articulate a range of language ideologies which, if unexamined, may perpetuate oppression for minoritized students. Utilizing a raciolinguistic framework, this critical qualitative study investigated the language ideologies of four Latina English-Spanish DLTCs over the course of their teacher preparation. The goal was to examine how any ideological shifts shaped their identities as bilingual speakers and educators. Findings revealed that influenced by coursework and student-teaching experiences, the DLTCs followed distinct, non-linear trajectories toward anti-oppressive language ideologies–although they also expressed tensions, at times (Henderson, 2022). These findings underscore the importance of creating spaces and opportunities for ongoing critical reflection in teacher preparation and beyond to challenge and dismantle White supremacist perspectives on language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101419"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799233","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}
Alison L. Bailey, Megan E. Abraham, Juno Yingzhi Dong, Ines M. Torres, Yifei Phoebe Wang, Edwin Zamora, Xizi Zhang
{"title":"Translanguaging: Conceptual underpinnings of equity-oriented instructional and assessment practices with adolescent multilingual learners","authors":"Alison L. Bailey, Megan E. Abraham, Juno Yingzhi Dong, Ines M. Torres, Yifei Phoebe Wang, Edwin Zamora, Xizi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101418","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101418","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The empirical papers in this Special Issue operationalize translanguaging in the context of diverse instructional and assessment practices with adolescent multilingual students. The different conceptualizations that guide their research questions, analyses and interpretations are described and connections between them and the current literature on translanguaging and other relevant fields are made. Additional aspects of the translanguaging construct as it relates to both equitable educational practices and the specifics of adolescent learners are then raised. These considerations include the reciprocal relationships between developments during adolescence and translanguaging practices, and how a translanguaging lens can help reveal the ways instruction and assessment can be asset-based, authentic and valid for adolescent multilingual learners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101418"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715166","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}
{"title":"Presence of spanish in a hispanic-serving institution on the southwestern US border: Towards better serving underrepresented students","authors":"Rosalva Alamillo","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101408","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101408","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research explores the presence of Spanish in a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in Southern California. Latinxs who are potentially Spanish speakers make up 34.6 % of the HSI's undergraduate enrollment. Three dimensions of space were analyzed: 1) the political dimension through institutional language policies; 2) the spatial dimension through linguistic landscape methodologies; and 3) the experiential dimension by collecting students’ perceptions about Spanish use on their university. Outcomes showed that the HSI positioned itself politically as appreciating linguistic diversity; however, outcomes revealed little Spanish in campus signage. Likewise, most students wanted to see more Spanish in their campus. The absence of Spanish in the educational space perpetuates the invisibility of Spanish speakers, underrepresents their identities, and reinforces the hegemony of English. The author recommends three approaches to better serve historically underrepresented students attending HSIs: the exploration of HSIs’ schoolscapes, the adoption of the critical pedagogy of place, and movement towards decolonization of HSIs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143628567","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}
{"title":"Collective memorying of kindergarten through the logic of children","authors":"Daniel Edelen , Audra Skukauskaitė","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101409","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101409","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this interactional ethnographic study of first grade children's interactions during mathematics, we demonstrate how children created a common understanding of “kindergarten” despite their different experiences of kindergarten during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on concepts of language games and collective memory, we make visible how a collective memory of Kindergarten first grade children co-constructed with their peers, became a resource for solving mathematics problems. We center the voices and actions of the children to uncover the nuanced complexities of children's ways of knowing and doing mathematics. In tracing the logic of the children, we reconceptualize collective memory as <em>collective memorying</em> - a process-oriented action. We conclude with an invitation for future research foregrounding children's ways of knowing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101409"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143592952","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}
Gilberto P. Lara , Lucila D. Ek , Myriam Jimena Guerra , Kenya M. Vargas
{"title":"Latine emergent bilinguals’ translanguaging in family literacy practices in Texas","authors":"Gilberto P. Lara , Lucila D. Ek , Myriam Jimena Guerra , Kenya M. Vargas","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study focuses on the home (bi)literacy practices of six bilingual Latine elementary school emergent bilingual students in South Texas. The research study is based on linguistic brokering and translanguaging to provide insights into the complexities of biliteracy development in their family context. The corpus of data includes participant observation field notes, audio and video recordings from home visits, interview transcripts, and written work by the children. The study reveals the diverse linguistic environment in the students' homes, which includes Spanish, English, Mexican Spanish, Central American Spanish, and South American Spanish. The research also explores how the students' translanguaging practices at home helped them develop their biliteracy skills while aiding their family members and improving family well-being. Moreover, the study examines how the students used digital literacy practices to maintain long-distance family relationships. These findings have important implications for researchers and educators leveraging home translanguaging, (bi)literacy practices, and knowledge to bridge the home-school divide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101407"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577796","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}
{"title":"Teachers’ use of sign-supported speech in interaction with multilingual children in Swedish preschools","authors":"Karolina Larsson , Polly Björk-Willén , Katarina Haraldsson , Kristina Hansson","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101398","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101398","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many preschoolers in Sweden have other family languages than Swedish. Sign-supported speech (SSS) is often used to support children's second language development and participation in interaction. The aim of the present paper is to study how preschool teachers use SSS in interaction with multilingual children, and children's way of participation in such interaction. The study was conducted in three preschool units situated in a multilingual area. The design is video-ethnographic, and the analyses build on Conversation Analysis. The findings show that teachers’ focus on sign-support sometimes limits their responsivity, which negatively affects children's participation in interaction. Furthermore, SSS is often used regardless of children's communicative needs, and has an agenda of its own. Since children's language learning is both interactive and contextual, it is not a question of using sign-support or not in preschool, but more a question of how it is used, why, with whom and in which situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101398"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143577795","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}
{"title":"Attitudes and ideologies of deaf signers toward American Sign Language structure","authors":"Emily Jo Noschese","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101410","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101410","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative study investigates Deaf signers’ perceptions and usage of word order in American Sign Language (ASL), focusing on the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) ideology. Through interviews with 10 Deaf participants, the study explores their views on the ideology that ‘ASL is a SOV language’ and examines their preferences for SOV versus SVO word orders in ASL. These preferences are analyzed in relation to participants’ educational backgrounds, family contexts, and exposure to ASL. Regardless of their diverse experiences, the belief in ASL's SOV structure remains prevalent among the participants. However, the findings highlight the complex interplay between language ideology and practical usage, revealing nuances in ASL's everyday application. This dynamic nature of ASL usage intersects with linguistic norms, cultural beliefs, and communication practices within the Deaf communities. Despite strong ideological attachment to ASL's SOV structure, personal beliefs do not seem to always fully align with language in daily life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548513","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}
{"title":"Translingual approach in assessing academic writing for emerging multilingual writers in EMI higher education","authors":"Daniel H. Chang , Qinghua Chen , Angel Mei Yi Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing from the first author's teaching experience in a first-year disciplinary writing course and observations, this article develops a theory to address the limitations of standardized language tests in assessing multilingual writers’ skills. These tests emphasize formulaic tasks that do not align with the complexities of university writing activities, such as reflection, or argumentation. The first author's observation of 25 first-year writers engaging with institutional writing support services reveal that academic writing is a complex process, rarely captured by standardized tests. We propose the Reflective Writing Space (RWS) model, a paradigm-shifting framework that reconceptualizes writing assessment through three interconnected dimensions: content & context, skill development, and language use and proficiency. This model advocates for a more inclusive and interactive approach that actively engages students, tutors, and instructors in teaching writing. We conclude with practical recommendations for implementing the RWS framework to better support multilingual writers’ academic writing development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548579","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}
Nadine Cruz Neri , Sascha Bernholt , Hendrik Härtig
{"title":"Every subject has its own language – patterns of linguistic features of expository texts in German stem textbooks","authors":"Nadine Cruz Neri , Sascha Bernholt , Hendrik Härtig","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>STEM education relies heavily on written language that students need to process in order to understand expository texts in the school context. Prior research indicates that students are challenged by certain linguistic features (LFs) prevalent in expository texts. Therefore, it is important that teachers support students adequately in their comprehension process. For German textbooks, however, research that examines which LFs are prevalent in which STEM subject is missing. In this study, we exploratively analyze the patterns of LFs of different STEM subjects (biology, chemistry, geography, mathematics, physics). For this, we examined 398 German texts extracted from 32 secondary textbooks. We found that some LFs are more prevalent in certain STEM subjects than in others. The found patterns of LFs hold the potential to provide concrete starting points for teachers to adequately support their students in processing the LFs of their respective STEM subject. Further implications and limitations are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101405"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528921","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}