Cooke, Rampton & Simpson
2023
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This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening…
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These papers are very closely linked to the work of the Hub for Education & Language Diversity (www.kcl.ac.uk/held – see ‘Useful Links’).
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In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents…
Rampton, Bryers, Chick, Cooke, Griffiths, Highet, Leung, Peutrell, Richardson, Tomei, Solomon & Winstanley
2022
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How much do language educators working in schools, Further Education (FE), not-for-profit organisations and universities really have in common? Can we really talk about the professional identity of teachers…
Rampton, Cooke, Leung, Tomei, Bryers, Winstanley & Holmes
2021
Key words: linguistic theory
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As ?an attempt at a comprehensive political stance on language? (Stroud 2008:45), ?Linguistic Citizenship? (LC) deserves to be a mainstream concept in socio- and applied linguistics. But the evaluation…
Key words: language teaching
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This case study digs into the practices and beliefs about multilingualism of two Belgian teachers of French as a foreign language (Fran?ais Langue ?trang?re, FLE), and it approaches this…
Cooke & Peutrell
2021
Key words: ESOL
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This paper is about the relationship between citizenship and ESOL for adult migrant students. When citizenship was inserted into the ESOL curriculum following the Nationality, Asylum & Immigration Act…
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Key words: education
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In linguistics and language education (as elsewhere), involvement with third sector organisations (TSOs) can enhance teaching, research and the practical value of university work. But for both parties, it…
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Key words: pedagogy, sociolinguistics
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This short paper takes a sociolinguistic look at participatory pedagogy and argues that participatory pedagogy offers a fuller and more creative exploration of language than many other types of…
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Key words: education
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Over c.50 years, language education has been a significant site of ideological struggle over England’s position in the world, whether in processes of decolonisation or globalisation, and the last…
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Key words: language ideology
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To analyse people?s thoughts, beliefs and feelings language and languages, sociolinguists have developed the concept of ?language ideology?. The goal is to understand ? how our thoughts, feelings and…
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Key words: multilingualism
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Instead of seeing multilingualism as a plurality of ?named languages?, this sociolinguistics briefing note argues that we should approach it as a repertoire of styles and linguistic resources, tuned…
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Key words: multilingualism
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We are academics and practitioners committed to multilingualism. Shared language is vital to social life, but linguistic diversity also plays a central role, and both the individual and society…
Cooke, Bryers & Winstanley
2018
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Key words: ESOL
Abstract
Speakers of languages other than English in the UK frequently face barriers to their integration and wellbeing, not because they do not speak the language or are reluctant to…
Rampton, Cooke & Holmes
2018
Key words: linguistic theory
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This paper sets Stroud?s ?Linguistic Citizenship? (LC) in dialogue (a) with Hymes? ethnographic sociolinguistics and (b) with language education in England.? LC?s commitment to democratic participation, to voice, to…
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Key words: methodology
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The teaching and learning of foreign languages represents a major site of multilingualism that is ripe for critical discussion by scholars from different perspectives….
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Key words: multilingualism, pedagogy
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There are now over 1 million pupils in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL). In intensely diverse contexts such as London this has thrown up…
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Key words: methodology
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This article sets out the emergent sector of ?Multilingual Creativity?, the innovative range of initiatives which engage with the complexity and huge potential of multilingualism amongst young people. Instead…
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Key words: ESOL
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What does the term ?integration? mean to adult ESOL learners? What facilitates their sense of belonging in the UK? What are the barriers they face? What are their opinions…