Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice最新文献

Sociocultural transitions of international employees 国际雇员的社会文化转型

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.26762

Jiyu Min

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Negotiating parental agency in daily encounters with educators 在与教育工作者的日常接触中协商家长代理权

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.24208

Laurent Filliettaz, Marianne Zogmal, Stéphanie Garcia, Ayla Bimonte, Stephen Billett, Beverley Flückiger

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Re-conceptualising communicative expertise in professional practice through the lens of sign language intercultural mediation 从手语跨文化调解的角度重新认识专业实践中的交际专长

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.23532

Jemina Napier

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Interactionally negotiating power in ‘War for Talent’ job interviews 人才争夺战 "求职面试中的权力互动谈判

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.24903

Melina De Dijn, Dorien Van De Mieroop

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Perception of ‘broad’ and ‘narrow’ fluency in the EFL performance of student interpreters 学生口译员在英语语言表达中对 "广义 "和 "狭义 "流利程度的看法

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.26465

Mahmood Yenkimaleki, V. V. van Heuven

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Extending Preselected Items Evaluation (PIE) with the ATA (American Translators Association) error categories for objective and targeted translation evaluation 利用 ATA（美国翻译协会）错误类别扩展预选项目评估 (PIE)，以进行客观和有针对性的翻译评估

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.21681

Amy Colman, Winibert Segers, Heidi Verplaetse

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The affordances of Reddit and framing of extremism on r/the_donald R/the_donald 上 Reddit 和极端主义框架的可承受性

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.21907

Samuel Cameron-McKee

{"title":"The affordances of Reddit and framing of extremism on r/the_donald","authors":"Samuel Cameron-McKee","doi":"10.1558/jalpp.21907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.21907","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study of r/the_donald, and how comment threads in this community were framed and rekeyed toward extremism. r/the_donald was a community on the social media website Reddit organized around fervent support for Donald Trump. In this paper, theories surrounding the features of Reddit such as its cultures, systems and potential for manipulation are connected to Goffman’s frame analysis to examine comments on r/the_donald from a discourse perspective. By analyzing a chain of twelve comments on r/the_donald through this lens, the effect that Reddit’s affordances had on communication was explored. A series of example comments that successively repositioned, or ‘rekeyed’, an original post, showed how the affordances of Reddit might facilitate the emergence of extreme right-wing talking points. It was found that the nature of Reddit’s scoring system, in which highly supported comments are highlighted and contentious comments are hidden from view, could create a situation in which rekeyings of a situation could be made to appear highly credible. It is hypothesized that attempting to argue with these rekeyings, or even to call them out as being in bad faith, may be difficult. The study concludes that the effect of Reddit’s affordances on the process of framing on r/the_donald allowed posts that may be in bad faith to receive positive attention so long as they supported Donald Trump.","PeriodicalId":52122,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Teachers and researchers negotiating data-sharing sessions 教师和研究人员就数据共享会议进行谈判

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.21704

Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste, Gabrielle Kahn

{"title":"Teachers and researchers negotiating data-sharing sessions","authors":"Lubie Grujicic-Alatriste, Gabrielle Kahn","doi":"10.1558/jalpp.21704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.21704","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes two pilot studies of teacher feedback elicited during two data-sharing sessions in two different colleges in the Northeastern United States. The main goal of the pilots was to understand the extent to which a discourse study’s findings obtained from different educational settings are relevant to the daily practices of active language teachers. The researchers created feedback-collection tools in the form of questionnaires and simplified datasets, and staged small informal data-sharing/feedback-gathering sessions that carefully followed a construct called Framework for Application. The practitioners were college language and writing teachers and tutors with TESOL or similar educational backgrounds, representing different degrees of expertise and experience. The preliminary findings reveal deep complexities of research sharing, confirming the reiterative nature of reflexive processes and the need for continuous revision of the feedback tools, for a more comprehensive understanding of teachers’ educational backgrounds, and for a far more extensive investment in time and resources than initially anticipated. The study concludes that a fuller understanding of the nature of practitioners’ language-teaching expertise in the classroom would be more likely to bring higher levels of mutual trust and stronger reflexive practices.","PeriodicalId":52122,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice","volume":"109 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interaction, asymmetries of knowledge and experience and the impact of theory on the in situ practice of coaching 互动、知识和经验的不对称以及理论对教练现场实践的影响

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.22905

Jonathan Clifton, Geert Jacobs, Astrid Vandendaele, Julia Valeiras-Jurado

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(Dis)trust in action (行动中的（不）信任

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.21701

Amanda Dinucci Almeida Bühler Velasco, Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira, Paulo Cortes Gago

{"title":"(Dis)trust in action","authors":"Amanda Dinucci Almeida Bühler Velasco, Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira, Paulo Cortes Gago","doi":"10.1558/jalpp.21701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.21701","url":null,"abstract":"Recent public statistics on law enforcement activities show that the Brazilian police are among the nation’s least trusted institutions. The legitimacy of policing derives from a perception of fair and justifiable rules applied fairly to all citizens, but police actions in low-income favela communities in Brazil have been denounced repeatedly for their arbitrary nature, abuse of authority and truculence. Most studies analysing trust in the police have been conducted through surveys. In this paper, however, we examine trust in action, through a video analysis of a stop-and-check operation undertaken by police officers in a low-income favela community in Rio de Janeiro. The analysis of this interaction shows that distrust steered the actions of both sides: the officers’ decision to stop somebody and use force reflects this distrust in people living or moving around in these narrow alleys, while the suspect’s resistance and calls for help demonstrate his fear and distrust of the police. We believe that examining police actions through a micro-analytical lens can contribute to training law enforcement officers, encouraging deeper reflection on factors that undermine trust in this institution.","PeriodicalId":52122,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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