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WP361 My language is the barrier: Reflections on English, corporate belonging and racialised exclusion in Brazil
2026
I am British. I speak English, and Brazilian companies pay me to teach it. But Brazil does not really need my language. So why does it keep demanding it? …
Key words: Brazil, Exclusion through English, Gatekeeping, institutional discourse
WP360. Preparing teachers to work multilingually: A Gambian pilot project
2026
This report presents the outcomes of a pilot teacher training initiative designed to support the integration of multilingual pedagogy in teacher education in The Gambia. The pilot focused on equipping pre-service and in-service teachers with the …
Key words: multilingualism, teacher education, The Gambia
WP359 Madrasa ideologies of English: Questioning ELT aid and the post-9/11 deployment of English to de-Islamize madrasas
2026
External donors growingly promote English as a notionally value-neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to …
Key words: decolonisation, English language education, Language ideologies, madrasas
WP358 Corpus planning in Scottish Gaelic: A case study
2026
A detailed example is presented of an aspect of Scottish Gaelic corpus planning, focussing on the use of community-based authentic speech recordings to inform the production of guidance on a range of grammatical issues. Attention is drawn to a …
Key words: language planning, language revitalisation, Scottish Gaelic
WP357 Adeus, Debbie
2026
Uma homenagem a Debbie Cameron 1958-2026.
Key words: applied linguistics, Feminism, language ideology, sociolinguistics
WP356 Interaction & memory in empirical sociolinguistic approaches to the spectral
2026
Sociolinguistics needs to take violence and its lasting, intense and/or unpredictable effects very seriously, but is a new and specialised hauntological sociolinguistics of the spectre needed to address them? This paper argues (i) that theories and …
Key words: conflict, insecuritisation, interaction, memory studies, methodology, sociolinguistics, spectres
WP355 Communication challenges in the practice of diaspora among Sri Lankan Tamils
2026
This paper builds on Brubaker’s (2005) conception of diaspora as practice and describes how a legacy of conflict feeds into basic communicative processes in the formation of diasporic spaces and identities within the Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) …
Key words: channels of communication, diaspora, diaspora practice, interactional sociolinguistics, Sri Lankan Tamils
WP354 Practice, theory & the researcher-teacher in a bidialectal Singlish programme
2026
This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a university academic adopting the part of a school-teacher – as a researcher-teacher rather than teacher-researcher – while designing and implementing a qualitative study in a secondary …
Key words: bi-dialectal pedagogy, classroom ethnography, ELT, qualitative methods, reflexivity, Singapore, Singlish
WP353 Linguistic citizenship in Africa
2026
Many thinkers on the cusp of African independences, wrestling with the question of how to ensure participatory and agentive fellowships for new, postcolonial beginnings, found themselves engaging with language. Franz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and …
Key words: agency, decoloniality, inequity, Linguistic Citizenship, voice
WP352 Heritage language schools in Cambridge
2026
In Cambridge, there is a well-developed network of community heritage language schools that are dedicated to the teaching and learning of some of the many minority languages spoken by children and their families. This type of school exists all …
Key words: bilingual education, Cambridge, Heritage language education, heritage languages, supplementary education
WP351 Language teachers amidst increasing insecuritisation: Concepts, experiences, practical actions
2026
In what ways are language teachers being affected by intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric and the rise of the far right? And what practical strategies can they develop to resist the growing hostility and suspicion around them? …
Key words: EAL, ESOL, language teachers, Securitisation
WP349 From critical analysis to critical education: The TRACE Research Report
2026
The research project “TRACE: Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discoursE – A critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis” adopts a critical discourse analytical perspective to examine how racist discourse can be …
Key words: anti-racism, critical discourse analysis, critical education, Greece, migration
WP348 Living with the chronotope of war: Sri Lankan Tamil diasporans in London
2025
‘Are chronotopes helpful’, asked Jan Blommaert. This chapter answers affirmatively, but uses the concept differently from Blommaert, centring its analysis on the difficulties that Sri Lankan Tamils in London experience in talking about the Sri …
Key words: chronotope, context, migration, narrative, refugees, Sri Lankan Tamils
WP347 Student voice, agency and active citizenship: Insights from a participatory action research in a Greek-Cypriot school
2025
This article explores "student voice" as an action-oriented concept, emphasizing its role in promoting active citizenship. Drawing on a nine- month participatory action research with an ethnographic perspective conducted in a secondary school in …
Key words: active citizenship, critical media literacy, ethnographic action research, silence, student voice
WP346 Relinking with ubuntu multilingualism through bilingual science learning: Parents’ perspectives
2025
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on parents’ views on language in education policy in Southern Africa. The children of the parents interviewed in this study participated in a bilingual learning intervention in their Grade 4 science …
Key words: bilingual education, decoloniality, multilingualism, South Africa, ubuntu
WP345 The politics of future re-imagination: Sociolinguistic approaches
2025
This chapter takes issue with the idea of “crisis” as the entry point to the volume, outlining the importance of considering the failed future promises of the past. Against the background of seemingly hopeless times, it conceptualises …
Key words: daily life, hope, utopias
WP344 Changing conceptions of literacies, language & development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa
2025
This text is the introduction to a thesis by publication which was published in 2009. The thesis prefigures several contemporary debates in multilingual language and literacy education, notably southern and decolonial approaches which advocate …
Key words: adult basic education, adult literacy, agency, citizenship, critical applied linguistics, development, multilingualism, reflexivity, resemiotisation, voice
WP343 Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language: Affect, embodiment and materiality in times of ‘crisis’
2024
Building on recent rethinking, this special issue introduction foregrounds the affective, relational, embodied and material dimensions of intercultural communication, and explores its links to ‘crisis’ as a lived, affective, and communicative …
Key words: affect, crisis, intercultural communication, liminality, materiality