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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…
Linguistic citizenship collection
Collections: Linguistic citizenship, Multilingualism
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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….
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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…
Petraki-Stokkou & Charalambous
2025
Collections: Linguistic citizenship, Digital media
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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…
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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…
Collections: Linguistic citizenship, Uncategorized
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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…
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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…
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Animated by general agreement that language education in England is too narrow, this article introduces a multi-layered approach to policy development, and outlines six tenets guiding the recently formed…
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Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in…
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In this plenary, I revisit the notion of EFL as a cultural discourse that I developed in previous work by engaging with it from a Southern locus of enunciation….
Coalition for Language Education
2024
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This Coalition for Language Education is committed to developing the communicative capacities of individuals, groups and institutions and the range of languages and linguistic styles – the ‘linguistic repertoires’…
Cooke, Rampton, Winstanley, Bryers, Belecova, Blackman, Griffiths, Jadallah, Jowett, Malakouti & Whitehouse
2023
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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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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…
Windle, Souza, Silva, Zaidan, Maia, Muniz & Lorenso
2023
Collections: Linguistic citizenship
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This paper outlines a research agenda centred on the production of spaces of dialogue and solidarity between peripheral territories. The term ‘transperipheries’ summarises a proposal for research and engagement…
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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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…