Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101446
Hong Zhang , Hyunyi Jung , Kayla Sutcliffe , Hongze Zhu , Sangyeon Park
{"title":"Analyzing classroom discourse in social justice mathematical modeling contexts","authors":"Hong Zhang , Hyunyi Jung , Kayla Sutcliffe , Hongze Zhu , Sangyeon Park","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101446","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101446","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research has extensively examined classroom discourse structures and functions in mathematics education; however, it remains under-investigated how classroom discourse unfolds in social justice mathematical modeling (SJMM) context. Our study investigated the discursive interactions between students and an instructor during a SJMM module implementation with upper elementary and middle school students. Using systemic functional linguistics (SFL)-informed Eggins and Slade’s (2006) discourse framework (E&S Framework), we analyzed 221 turns of classroom discourse during a 75-minute session. Our findings reveal module design and instructor discourse can collaboratively foster a supportive learning environment that enhances student agency and amplifies diverse student voices in mathematical discussions, while illuminating the intersection of mathematical reasoning and social justice consciousness. Our study hopes to make dual contributions to linguistics and education: extending E&S Framework to the new SJMM context while identifying evidence-based discourse strategies to enhance mathematics instruction through effective classroom dialogue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 101446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518906","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-10DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101407
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":"2025-06-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101418
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":"2025-06-01","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":"Exploring child agency and positioning in mother-child homework dynamics: Learning to write the five-paragraph essay","authors":"Kate Shea , Kade Downs , Angel Steadman , Hayriye Kayi-Aydar","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101429","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101429","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article details the discursive positions adopted during a mother and child’s bilingual (Turkish and English) interactions drafting five-paragraph essays over the course of a semester. Using positioning theory (Davies and Harré, 1990), the researchers analyze the multiplicity of positions adopted as the mother-scholar navigates her dual roles as parent and educator and her bilingual child develops agency as an emerging writer. Data sources included video recordings of four homework sessions, the teacher’s assignment prompts, and the child’s drafts and final essays. The research questions included: What positions become central as a mother and child co-construct writing through dialogue? How do these positions limit or facilitate the child’s agency in the writing process? This analysis provides valuable insight for parents and teachers for how to better support multilingual and multicultural students and their agentic development as writers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101429"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873847","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101410
Emily Jo Noschese
{"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":"2025-06-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101409
Daniel Edelen , Audra Skukauskaitė
{"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":"2025-06-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101419
Patricia Ferreyra
{"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":"2025-06-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101422
Joseph Siegel
{"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":"2025-06-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101427
Melissa Anne Towler
{"title":"Arabic language tutors’ beliefs on including regional varieties in undergraduate degree courses in England","authors":"Melissa Anne Towler","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the recognition of Arabic as a diglossic language with multiple regional varieties (RVs), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) continues to be prioritised by educators in England. This study investigates tutors' perceptions on including RVs in their courses through 12 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with tutors from eight of the nine Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England offering undergraduate degree courses with a major component in Arabic. The findings reveal that tutors’ beliefs are often shaped by dominant language ideologies. However, there is growing evidence of change, with some HEIs embracing Arabic’s diglossic, multidialectal nature by teaching both MSA and RVs, and tutors increasingly raising awareness of the sociolinguistic reality of Arabic use. Yet, as this is not always a formal part of the curriculum, not all learners benefit. These findings highlight the need for professional development to support tutors in aligning course content with the sociolinguistic reality of Arabic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143869076","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101428
Alison L. Bailey , Louise C. Wilkinson
{"title":"Commentary for the Special Issue on Equity and Methodological Advancements to Transform Academic Discourse Teaching and Research. Finding Common Ground: The path forward for building teacher and student capacity for academic discourse and student success","authors":"Alison L. Bailey , Louise C. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101428"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143869077","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}