WP319 Participatory ESOL: Taking stock

Cooke, Rampton, Winstanley, Bryers, Belecova, Blackman, Griffiths, Jadallah, Jowett, Malakouti & Whitehouse

2023

Collections: Adult language education, Hub for Education & Language Diversity (HELD), Language education, Linguistic citizenship

Key words: ESOL, Freire, participatory pedagogy

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Building on sustained discussion among eleven people actively engaged in teaching English to adult speakers of other languages (ESOL), this paper asks what ‘participatory’ approaches to ESOL now look…

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WP317 Linguistic Citizenship

Christopher Stroud

2023

Collections: Linguistic citizenship, Hub for Education & Language Diversity (HELD), Language education, Multilingualism

Key words: decolonisation, education, language ideology, Linguistic Citizenship, multilingualism

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This paper explores the notion of Linguistic Citizenship, a term coined by Chris Stroud at the turn of the millennium in Southern Africa to draw attention to ‘grassroots’ engagements…

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WP311 ‘I don’t speak Singlish’: Unequal Englishes, chutzpah and denial in the bidialectal classroom.

Luke Lu

2023

Collections: Language education

Key words: bidialectal education, Singlish

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In Singapore, dominant narratives of Singlish as ‘bad English’ and an impediment to acquiring the Standard co-exist with discourses about Singlish as a marker of Singaporean identity. One consequence…

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WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect

Cooke, Rampton & Simpson

2023

Collections: Hub for Education & Language Diversity (HELD), Language education, Linguistic citizenship

Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship

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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…

Language education collection

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