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}
{"title":"You don’t need to prove yourself: A raciolinguistic perspective on Chinese international students’ academic language anxiety and ChatGPT use","authors":"Kewen Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adopting a raciolinguistic perspective, this study examines the Chinese international students’ anxiety on academic English writing under ChatGPT use and AI policing. As the baseline of language proficiency and a gatekeeper to academic achievement, academic English stands as the exclusive linguistic standard within academia. Chinese international students in the U.S. often experience different levels of anxiety in academic English writing as they are usually perceived as outsiders and linguistically deficient. In this context, AI language refining tools like ChatGPT have become a popular tool for such students to “standardize” their academic English writing. While these tools “improve” the quality of writing to some extent, they in fact exacerbate linguistic insecurity and language anxiety, because of their native-like response mode and readers’ biased policing. Through analysis of the interview data and human-AI interaction data provided by 18 Chinese international students in a U.S. graduate program, this study reveals the structural challenges faced by bilingual international students as they navigate academia in the era of ChatGPT. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding requirement of academic English proficiency and racialized speakers’ experiences of being subjugated and engaging in self-policing in academic settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101406"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143520538","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":"Toward equitable classrooms: Translanguaging for adolescent emergent multilinguals","authors":"Huseyin Uysal , Zhongfeng Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This editorial piece provides an introduction to our special issue on instruction and assessment practices in the schooling of adolescent emergent multilinguals, and a comprehensive overview of the evolution of translanguaging from its origins to its current application as a socio-cognitive-political framework in multilingual education. We discuss its infusion in pedagogical practices to promote equitable learning opportunities for adolescent learners. The special issue highlights both the theoretical underpinnings of translanguaging and its practical applications, particularly in the underexplored area of assessment, offering a fresh perspective on fostering inclusive, dynamic, and culturally sustaining classrooms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578594","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":"Navigating the emotional stickiness of belonging through scaling: A black American woman teacher's experiences in the context of teaching English abroad in Korea","authors":"Jihea Maddamsetti , KaaVonia Hinton","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Questions about belonging are particularly poignant to migrant English language teaching (ELT) professionals. However, few studies have explored migrant ELT professionals’ emotional belonging, and even fewer studies have studied how Black women native English teachers navigate their emotional belonging as they teach English abroad, in countries like Korea. This three-year longitudinal study explores how one Black American woman, Kayla, navigated the emotionality of belonging as she taught English in Korea. By drawing on the notions of emotional stickiness and scales, our analysis shows how emotional stickiness created key reference points for the scaling processes by which Kayla constructed a sense of belonging. By highlighting Kayla's everyday feelings of belonging vis-à-vis her scaling processes, this study deepens our understanding of migrant Black ELT professionals’ emotional lives and provides implications for ELT stakeholders at the pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101402"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143465499","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":"The potential of pedagogical translanguaging in English language and in English-medium content classes","authors":"Jasone Cenoz , Durk Gorter","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>English is learned by most students in Europe but there are significant differences regarding proficiency in English between European countries. This paper focuses on learning English in the Basque Autonomous Community where proficiency in English has improved in the last years but is related to the students’ socioeconomic and educational background. English is a third or additional language used both as a school subject and in some cases as the medium of instruction, alongside Basque and Spanish. The paper presents a pedagogical reflection on the potential of translanguaging to optimize the benefits of multilingualism to enhance linguistic and academic achievements among multilingual adolescents while mitigating existing inequalities. Additionally, the paper stresses the need for flexible language practices and translanguaging in assessment, addressing both linguistic and content-related contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143445374","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":"Corrigendum to “Creating translanguaging spaces in a Hong Kong English medium instruction mathematics classroom: A comparative analysis of classroom interactions with and without the use of iPad” [Linguistics and Education 78 (2023) 101227]","authors":"Kevin W.H. Tai","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101400"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578596","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":"Corrigendum to “The development of an ESL teacher's ability in constructing a virtual translanguaging space in synchronous online language tutorials” [Linguistics and Education 83 (2024) 101311]","authors":"Kevin W.H. Tai , Miaomiao Zuo","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578677","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}
Waqar Ali Shah , Qammar-un-nisa Jatoi , Ume Rabab Shah
{"title":"De-centering the anthropocentric worldview in language textbooks: A posthumanist call for discursive reparations for sustainable ELT","authors":"Waqar Ali Shah , Qammar-un-nisa Jatoi , Ume Rabab Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our ecosystem has suffered severe material and epistemic damages as a consequence of contemporary neoliberal forces and Eurocentric onto-epistemologies in the Anthropocene era. These epistemic damages are also visible in how ELT textbooks are designed in local contexts. Informed by posthumanism and Southern epistemology, the present study analyzes the discursive/semiotic representation of nature, environment and human-nature relations in English language textbooks in Sindh province of Pakistan – highly affected climate region in South Asia. The study used Eco-CLA and multimodality as theoretical frameworks. The findings suggest that the English textbooks fail to incorporate localized sustainable thinking as well as lack references to marginalized communities affected by deteriorating ecological conditions in Pakistan. Instead, the textbooks tend to normalize the unsustainable stories connecting learning to the physical world in an anthropocentric, aestheticized, and neoliberal consumerist manner, while disregarding nonhuman entities as sentient entities. In light of our findings, we call for posthumanist discursive reparations informed by Southern epistemologies in order to rethink the writing of textbooks in ecologically affected global regions, including Sindh – the authors’ geo-epistemic context. This requires shifting away from anthropocentric disembodied conception of world to an embodied world characterized by nonduality, co-existence, entanglement and harmony.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101397"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143394597","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":"Equity and methodological advancements to transform academic discourse teaching and research: introduction to the special issue","authors":"Alison L. Bailey , Louise C. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101396","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143578595","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":"Linguistic justice: Addressing linguistic variation of black children in teaching and learning","authors":"Julie A. Washington , Iheoma U. Iruka","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper underscores how the multidimensionality of racism, such as cultural, systemic, and interpersonal biases, influences the early language development and support of African American English (AAE) speakers, as well as calling attention to the linguistic capital of AAE that is often not given prestige in contrast to General American English (GAE). Using a case study of early educators in a Black-majority preschool program, this paper sheds light on early educators’ knowledge, attitudes, professional preparation and needs regarding meeting the educational needs of AAE speakers; caution is warranted due to the small sample size and single source. Nevertheless, the findings from this case study are examined through an anti-racist and anti-linguicism lens, calling for a transformative linguistic approach, translanguaging, that recognizes the injustice of requiring African American children to demonstrate linguistic flexibility by switching codes. This requires their cognitive resources to be allocated to learning the language of the classroom along with other academic and social skills without allowing them access to their full linguistic repertoires. In addition to more research regarding educators’ knowledge, attitudes, and professional preparation regarding AAE, this paper calls for transformative training and ideology shifting, coupled with structural changes, to support early educators to accept the use of dialects used by children by recognizing that each language and language variety is utilized in different spaces for specific functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138131","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}