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WP19 Continuity and change in views of society in applied linguistics
2002
This paper starts out by looking at a general shift in the humanities and social sciences, where it is the interface between modernity and post-/late-modernity rather than the encounter between tradition and modernity that is now becoming the …
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP18 Education in England and Speakers of Languages Other than English
2001
This paper charts deteriorating state school provision for speakers of languages other than English in the 15 years or so since 1984, when the first edition of Language in the British Isles (Trudgill (ed) 1984) was published. It focuses primarily on …
Key words: education
WP17 Globalisation, Diaspora and Language Education in England
2001
This paper seeks to: …
Key words: globalisation, language education
WP15 Speech community
2000
Speech community' has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological, epistemic and political cross-currents, and in this paper I will try to trace some of its most important shifts in meaning since the 1960s. My discussion is divided …
Key words: speech community
WP12 Multilingualism & Heteroglossia In and Out of School: End-of-Project Report
2000
This project uses interactional sociolinguistics1 to investigate the ways in which adolescents experiment with different dialects and languages at school. It has grown out of research which studied the ways in which youngsters use both their own and …
Key words: multilingualism
WP11 Dichotomies, Difference and Ritual in Second Language Learning and Teaching
1998
This paper questions the distinction between 'natural' and 'instructed' language learning. It first of all introduces two extracts in which adolescents use Panjabi as a second language in peer group recreation, and then shows how these contradict …
Key words: SLA
WP10 Teaching and Learning Bilingually: A Survey of Recent Research
1998
Classroom-based research in bilingual settingsi is now entering its third decade. Its origins lie in studies which were carried out in bilingual education programmes in the United States in the latter half of the 1970s. Over the course of the last …
Key words: bilingualism, language teaching
WP9 Narrative, Argument and Literacy: A Comparative Study of the Narrative Discourse Development of Monolingual and Bilingual 5-10 Year Old Learners
1997
In order to find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, this paper analyses and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5-10 year olds in two ways. It uses (a) Labov?s taxonomy to measure …
WP5 Language Crossing and the Redefinition of Reality: Implications for Research on Codeswitching community
1997
In this paper, I shall first give an account of 'language crossing', a verbal practice that has not been very widely recognised in sociolinguistics (cf Rampton 1995a). Then, with a description in place, I shall consider some of crossing's more …
Key words: language crossing
WP4 Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies: New Ethnicities, Liminality and Interaction
1997
With the emergence of 'new ethnicities' as its central empirical focus, this paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistic discourse analysis on the one hand, and research on youth in cultural studies, anthropology and sociology on the …
Key words: cultural studies, sociolinguistics
WP2 The Idealised Native-Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities: Contemporary Issues in TESOL
1997
TESOL practice within the schooling sector in England has been mainstreamed. Historically this represents a major advance in terms of pedagogical relevance and equality of access, but our current research (Rampton, Harris and Leung, 1997) and our …
Key words: TESOL
WP1 Multilingualism in England: A Review of Research
1997
This review concentrates on the dynamic and contested relationships between (a) educational policy, (b) academic discourse, and (c) everyday sociolinguistic practice. Our account is limited to England and to its newer heritage languages, and it is …
Key words: multilingualism