Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393
Alexis A. López , Sultan Turkan
{"title":"Examining how multilingual learners engaged in a digital science modeling assessment through translanguaging","authors":"Alexis A. López , Sultan Turkan","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessments that require students to articulate their scientific models in English can be challenging for multilingual learners, who may lack the language proficiency to do so. In response to these increasing language demands, we have developed a digital science modeling assessment task that is adaptable to these students' linguistic and semiotic resources, enabling them to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. A pilot study involving 32 multilingual learners in the United States revealed their ability to use various linguistic resources and multiple language modes to create, describe, and explain their models. The study underscores the importance of assessments that promote translanguaging, allowing students to exhibit their science learning through various representations and catering to the diverse needs of multilingual learners. The findings of this study are likely to influence the design of digital content assessments that enable multilingual learners to utilize translanguaging to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101393"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099020","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101400
Kevin W.H. Tai
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101399
Jasone Cenoz , Durk Gorter
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-22DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101402
Jihea Maddamsetti , KaaVonia Hinton
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392
Min Li, Yujing Chen
{"title":"In the wild? Evaluating the authenticity of conversation openings and closings in EFL/ESL textbooks","authors":"Min Li, Yujing Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Textbooks serve as the primary source of language input for L2 learners. Despite their significance, there remains a notable gap in the research concerning the authenticity of EFL/ESL textbook conversations when compared to those observed in naturalistic settings. Against this backdrop, this study examines the extent to which textbooks authentically portray conversation openings and closings. Results indicate that a substantial proportion of textbook conversations lack authentic inclusion of opening and closing sequences, with more than half of the conversations presented without openings and closings that commonly occur in real-life situations. Examination of conversation openings indicates a tendency for textbooks to feature single-component presentations. In terms of closings, textbooks exhibit a scarcity of preclosing signals, predominantly featuring components related to <em>appreciation, arrangement</em>, and <em>solicitude</em> in preclosing sequences. Conversely, sequences involving <em>back-reference, announced closing</em>, and <em>moral or lesson</em> are infrequently addressed. Additionally, a prevailing proportion of textbook conversations lack terminal exchanges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099017","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 : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101401
Kevin W.H. Tai , Miaomiao Zuo
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101406
Kewen Zheng
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101405
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":"2025-04-01","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}