Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101383
Steve Daniel Przymus, Melissa Mendoza
{"title":"Now you see me, now you don't: Unveiling adolescent multilingual identities through magic, storytelling, and translanguaging","authors":"Steve Daniel Przymus, Melissa Mendoza","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Identity development at school is inextricably linked with both language practice and positive and/or negative school experiences. Understanding “identification as an ongoing social and political process” (<span><span>Bucholtz & Hall, 2004</span></span>, p. 376), educators must be purposeful in constructing educational possibilities that address identity. The goals of this paper are to propose and describe potential school-based activities and opportunities that bridge adolescent active bilingual learners/users of English (ABLE, <span><span>Przymus et al., 2020</span></span>) students’ interests, multilingualism, and identities in schools. Building off of previous work with interest-based communities of practice (<span><span>Przymus, 2016</span></span>; <span><span>Przymus et al., 2020</span></span>; <span><span>Canagarajah, 2007</span></span>; <span><span>Norton, 2013</span></span>) and work in oracy/literacy studies that combine translanguaging in adolescent storytelling with magic (<span><span>Przymus & Faggella-Luby, 2023</span></span>), in this paper we share the process and results of both finished and ongoing studies with adolescent, newcomer ABLE students in the U.S. and ABLE students in México, who are members of their schools’ and/or communities’ magic clubs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099019","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: 2025-02-04DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101396
Alison L. Bailey , Louise C. Wilkinson
{"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":"2025-04-01","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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2025-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101382
Julie A. Washington , Iheoma U. Iruka
{"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}
Linguistics and EducationPub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381
Fergal Bradley
{"title":"From a learner to a user? Exploring learning in language counselling through the lens of linguistic mudes","authors":"Fergal Bradley","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This practitioner-research (PR) paper examines Finnish university students’ learning experiences in an autonomy-focused English course through the lens of linguistic <em>mudes. Mudes</em> have been described as the change from being a learner to being a user of a language, an idea also common in learner autonomy. Following language counselling (also known as advising) sessions, the author recorded and reflected on student stories in a counselling journal, examining how the concept of <em>mudes</em> mapped on to students’ learning experiences in the course. The study employs Exploratory Practice (EP), Reflective Practice (RP), and Narrative Inquiry (NI) to develop a pedagogically sustainable and context-sensitive approach to PR, particularising <em>mudes</em> to the author's counselling practice. Reflexive thematic analysis of the journal generates four distinct learning narratives, corresponding and contrasting with the idea of <em>mudes</em>. These narratives illustrate how PR approaches can contribute both to local knowledge and practices and to wider research and practice communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138029","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361
Juan Dong, Yawen Han
{"title":"“We feel excluded and isolated”: Multilingual international students’ emotions and agency in an EMI program","authors":"Juan Dong, Yawen Han","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global whim to introduce EMI policy in higher education is often accompanied by neoliberal discourses without considering the emotional effects on stakeholders. Following a critical post-structuralist lens, this qualitative study examines how the implementation of EMI impacts the emotions and agency of international students in Southwest China. The findings revealed that despite the neoliberal ideals of EMI leading to international students’ emotions of hope, pride, and expectation about their future employment and academic pursuits, they encountered many emotional struggles resulting from institutional classroom segregation, English insufficiency, and high-stake exams. To empower themselves and alleviate those emotional challenges, international students, as entreprenurial subjects, adopted agencies by exploiting digital space, seeking peer support and utilizing the local linguistic learning resources. The study closes with implications to promote students’ emotional awareness in policy making and implementation, calling for creating inclusive and supportive learning environments that optimize students’ academic success and overall well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138128","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101378
Monica Shank Lauwo
{"title":"Reconceptualizing literacy and disrupting Whiteness: Multiliteracies autobiographies in teacher education","authors":"Monica Shank Lauwo","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dominant approaches to literacy education privilege White middle-class norms, creating urgent need to reconceptualize literacy and decentre Whiteness in teacher education. This study examines the role of three-part multiliteracies autobiographies in supporting teacher candidates (TCs) to reconceptualize literacy while considering possibilities for equity-oriented antiracist pedagogy. Conducted in a literacy methods course at a Canadian university, this critical action research study employs raciolinguistics, critical antiracism, and multiliteracies as theoretical lenses to investigate: How can multiliteracies autobiographies support TCs’ reconceptualization of literacy? How can these assignments contribute to TCs’ critical orientations towards antiracism, equity, and linguistic diversity? Analysis of multimodal autobiographies and critical reflections demonstrate TCs’ reimaginations of literacy in ways that denaturalize Whiteness, growing courage to critically engage with race, and development of concrete pedagogical ideas for more equitably supporting racialized multilinguals. Implications centre on heightening critical reflexivity and explicit engagement with race and identity in antiracist teacher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138132","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380
Sergio Loza
{"title":"“Did you have some kind of blow to the head?”: Spanish heritage language learners, language ideologies and oral corrective feedback","authors":"Sergio Loza","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This ethnographic study examines one instructor's Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF) practices as conceptualized based on the interactionist framework, involving four Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners in a beginning-level community college Spanish classroom. Based on analysis of interview and observational classroom data, the findings reveal how the instructor's OCF embodies language ideologies and imposes dominant norms on learners. Findings also describe how the instructor's OCF practices contain ideologically charged metalinguistic commentary that reinforces her subtractive teaching philosophy with regard to SHL learners. OCF as conceptualized within the interactionist framework is considered an inherently neutral practice that can facilitate language learning but the findings from this study call this assumption into question. Moreover, the study validates a need for alternative analytic frameworks that connect OCF to SHL pedagogy to further clarify its use with SHL learners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138130","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356
Faythe Beauchemin , Beth Krone , Emily Machado , Kongji Qin , Anne Valauri , Paul Hartman
{"title":"Toward a theory of transgressive classroom language","authors":"Faythe Beauchemin , Beth Krone , Emily Machado , Kongji Qin , Anne Valauri , Paul Hartman","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims at theorizing transgressive classroom language. Taking up theories of languaging, critical childhood studies, and subjectivity, we theorize instances of transgressive classroom language as languaging acts that disrupt notions of propriety and appropriateness in the classroom. We articulate a heuristic framework for understanding how ideologies and power relations shape language norms in literacy instruction and how teachers and students counter such forces through transgressive languaging acts with examples from five classroom discourse studies. We conclude with a discussion of its implications and a call for critical listening in understanding students’ transgressive languaging acts in classroom learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138127","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 : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377
Chunhong Liu , Megan K. Barker , Qinghua Chen , Maurice M.W. Cheng , Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan , Angel M.Y. Lin
{"title":"“He drank too much Gatorade”: Exploring learner conceptions in scientific reasoning from a social semiotic perspective","authors":"Chunhong Liu , Megan K. Barker , Qinghua Chen , Maurice M.W. Cheng , Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan , Angel M.Y. Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study employed the social semiotic perspective and, in particular, thematic patterns theory which emphasizes the potential of language in constructing knowledge and views scientific concepts as institutionalized patterning of social semiotic resources. It examined (1) how patterns of semantic relations could help reveal students’ development of their scientific claims and (2) what factors may contribute to students’ thematic patterning. This study was situated in an undergraduate biology classroom in Canada and focused on a written biology task about water intoxification. With data collected from students’ writing and teaching materials, it revealed the divergent emergence of learner conceptions in the form of thematic patterns and identified three influential factors: (1) teachers’ pedagogical cut, (2) students’ knowledge transfer, and (3) the relationality, temporality, and locality of scientific reasoning in biology. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of thematic patterns theory in exploring learner conceptions and also bears pedagogical implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138133","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 : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101379
Flora Woltran , Susanne Schwab
{"title":"Language as a distinguishing feature or common ground? A participatory study on manifestations of intergroup relations in the lived experiences of multilingual students.","authors":"Flora Woltran , Susanne Schwab","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The performative nature of language renders it a tool for the continuous negotiation of social group memberships. It serves as a medium to express one's identity, ideas, values, and beliefs, and to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships. The current study employed a qualitative participatory approach to investigate the manifestations of intergroup relations in the lived language learning and speaking experiences of 25 elementary school students attending segregated language support measures in Austrian schools. To this end, student-generated photographs were utilized to stimulate individual and group interviews, with the resulting data analyzed through thematic analysis. The results show that manifestations of intergroup relations revolve around the positioning of the self and the other, constructions of social affiliations and legitimizations of inclusion and exclusion. Specifically, participants position themselves and others in school interactions along the category of language, which is based on the perceived mixing of nationality and language and is in part strongly permeated by the internalization of monolingual ideology. The findings of this study are discussed in terms of the persistent linguistic discrimination in schools, which is closely linked to the historical roots of the use of teaching for a national, monolingual-oriented education and the resulting hierarchization of languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142743797","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}