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WP276 Participatory pedagogy, sociolinguistics and the total linguistic fact
2020
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 language teaching.? The central sociolinguistic idea is …
Key words: pedagogy, sociolinguistics
WP271 Teaching students to research Covid communication
2020
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected a great deal of everyday communicative practice, and some of the effects are potentially long-lasting.? There is lots of conversation about the pros and cons of these changes, but is this metacommentary …
WP241 Language, neoliberalism, and the commodification of pedagogy
2018
This paper argues that, although research on neoliberalism and language commodification has helped reveal the material conditions under which language education programs are implemented worldwide, existing sociolinguistic literature has not yet …
Key words: pedagogy
WP182 Promoting multilingual creativity: Key principles from successful projects
2015
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 new hybrid ways of using language. Rather than languages living neatly side by side, …
Key words: multilingualism, pedagogy
WP156 Exuberant voiceless participation: Dialogic sensibilities in the primary classroom
2015
Dialogic pedagogy sometimes focuses on the interplay of voices: Whose voices are expressed and attended to in classroom discourse?? How do these voices play off of one another in creating new ideas and meanings?? And in particular, how far are …
Key words: pedagogy
WP103 Critical sociolinguistics and critical pedagogy: Dialogue in a multilingual Hong Kong school
2013
In its understanding of social reality as discursively constructed, critique has illuminated how social inequality works at the local level, while also facilitating the development of transformational projects aimed at empowering certain social …
Key words: pedagogy, sociolinguistics