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WP317 Linguistic Citizenship
2023
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 with language (specifically multilingualism) as a dynamic of …
Key words: decolonisation, education, language ideology, Linguistic Citizenship, multilingualism
WP283 Language education and 'conflicted heritage': Implications for teaching and learning
2021
This article revisits discussions of the relationship between language and heritage, bringing into the picture processes and experiences of (in)security and conflict. It draws largely on critical heritage studies literature, as well as on literature …
Key words: education
WP281 Collaboration between universities and third sector organisations in language education
2021
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 often takes special extra initiative to …
Key words: education
WP275 Education, England & users of languages other than English
2020
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 two decades have seen intensifications in the …
Key words: education
WP265 Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingualism, Linguistic Citizenship & Epistemic Justice
2020
This paper explores in what ways language ? and multilingualism in particular ? can be rethought in order to further epistemic justice. In order to situate the question of language in a broader decolonial project, it starts by critically reviewing …
Key words: education, multilingualism
WP249 Language and regimes of communication: Students? struggles with norms & identities through chronotopic work
2019
Linguistic diversity is regarded as an unwelcome challenge in mainstream Danish education. In general, it is not introduced as educationally (or even socially) relevant, and there are few documented cases of successful school identities associated …
Key words: education
WP237 Learning safely from error: Reconsidering the ethics of simulation-based medical education through ethnography
2018
This dialogical working paper results from the annual e-seminar of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF), which took place online between 1st & 22nd June 2017.? It focuses on Caroline Pelletier and Roger Kneebone?s 2016 article, ?Learning Safely …
Key words: education
WP231 Regimenting academic discourse: Additional-language summaries as an equivocal remedy for Anglophone science
2017
The dominance of English in scientific production raises issues in relation to certain responsibilities of Swedish universities, linked to the dissemination of knowledge and the development of the Swedish language. In light of this, the current paper …
Key words: education, language policy
WP211 The burden of smartness: Teacher's pet and classmates' teasing in a Danish classroom
2017
Schools are socio-historically situated battlefields about what it means to be a 'smart student', and about which students come to be viewed as smart. Struggles around smartness are a problem for educational scholars and teachers because they can …
Key words: education
WP202 Linguistic pluralism and educational anxiety in contemporary Morocco
2016
Notwithstanding its promotion as a vehicle for the decolonization and modernization of knowledge in Morocco, the policy of Arabization has been caught in an ongoing competition with the pedagogical visions of the French Protectorate?visions that have …
Key words: education
WP199 We're not here to skewer anyone: Face-work in video- based teacher learning
2016
Video-based teacher professional development offers great promise, but also poses some significant ? and heretofore relatively unexplored ? risks. Teachers typically teach alone, behind closed doors.? Adhering to norms of privacy and noninterference, …
Key words: education
WP191 Stance-taking and the discursive construction of ethnicity in schools: Insights from southwestern China
2016
Few studies of ethnic education in China have explored new perspectives generated by the conditions of late modernity where traditional, and often essentialist, conceptualizations of ethnic identity and culture have lost their explaining power. This …
WP183 Silenced partners: The role of bilingual peers in secondary school contexts
2015
Although research often acknowledges the importance of engaging students? home language and culture to bridge to academic literacies in English, few have explicitly examined bilingual peers as a resource for language learning. This study explores how …
Key words: bilingualism, education
WP174 Multilingual classrooms in times of superdiversity
2015
In this paper, we discuss multilingual classrooms and superdiversity. More specifically we address the consequences that a revised understanding of language, based on the concept of language repertoires,? has for language education, as well as for …
Key words: education, multilingualism, superdiversity
WP154 Superdiversity & discourses of conflict: Interaction in a literacy class
2015
Discussions of superdiversity argue that rapid social change has generated major problems for linguistic, ethnic and cultural categorisation.? But what happens when these changes occur in a conflict-ridden society which struggles to preserve the …
Key words: education, superdiversity
WP146 Language Education Policy in Late Modernity: (Socio)linguistic ethnographies in the European Union
2015
Focusing on developments in research on language education policy, this short paper begins with a sketch of the new problem space emerging at the intersection of intensified transnational mobility, expanding economic neo-liberalisation and the …
Key words: education, language policy
WP139 Bilingual education in Hong Kong: History, challenges & directions for research
2014
The field of bilingual education in Hong Kong provides a perfect window for studying transformations of education within wider processes of economic, institutional, political, sociolinguistic and cultural change. As Hong Kong changed from a former …
Key words: bilingualism, education
WP137 De-securitising Turkish: Teaching the language of a former enemy, and intercultural language education
2014
This paper explores the fit between orthodox ideas about intercultural language education and situations of acute insecurity.? It begins with an account of securitisation theory, and sketches several contexts where language teaching is affected by an …
WP128 Change in urban classroom culture and interaction (2010)
2014
The UK Government?s Department for Education has recently issued a discussion paper entitled ?School behaviour and attendance: Research priorities and questions? (March 2014), saying that ?poor behaviour in the classroom, particularly low level …
Key words: education