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WP319 Participatory ESOL: Taking stock
2023
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 like in England. First it sketches a lineage …
Key words: ESOL, Freire, participatory pedagogy
WP318 Working papers for a more open academy
2023
What contribution can working papers (WPs) make to a more open academy, and where do they stand in current debates about Open Science? They used to provide speedier publication and feedback as well as cost-free/low-cost access, but with the …
Key words: academic publishing, applied linguistics, decolonisation, higher education, Open access
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
WP316 Sociolinguistics meets Memory Studies: A conversation
2023
What do Sociolinguistics and Memory Studies have in common, and why should they be interested in each other? What are the likely obstacles to their interaction? How could they be overcome? And what are the potential rewards? This conversation …
WP315 Towards a transperipheral paradigm: An agenda for socially engaged research
2023
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 developed collectively by seven …
Key words: antiracism, gambiarra, literacies of reexistance, mandinga, transperipheries
WP314. Citizen (socio)linguistics: What we can learn from engaging young people as language researchers
2023
This paper discusses how citizen science (CS) – the “participation of non-professional contributors in the production of scientific knowledge” (Kasperowski et al., 2021:14) – is conceptualised and applied in (socio)linguistics. After …
WP313 Jerusalem and the limits and affordances of sociolinguistics
2023
The 2018 Israeli Nationality Law defined Israel as a state for Jewish people. What are the implications of this for Jerusalem and its population of roughly 500,000 Jews and 300,000 Palestinian Arabs, and more particularly, what are the …
Key words: language & politics, methodology, Palestinian Arabic, sociolinguistics
WP312 Por um paradigma transperiférico: uma agenda para pesquisas socialmente engajadas
2022
Este texto propõe uma agenda de pesquisa sobre a produção de espaços de diálogo e solidariedade entre territórios periféricos. O termo ‘transperiferias’ traduz esta proposta de pesquisa e engajamento, elaborada coletivamente por sete …
Key words: antiracism, antirracismo, gambiarra, letramentos de reexistência, literacies of reexistance, mandinga, transperiferias, transperipheries
WP311 'I don't speak Singlish': Unequal Englishes, chutzpah and denial in the bidialectal classroom.
2023
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 of such competing discourses has been …
Key words: bidialectal education, Singlish
WP310 Advanced Linguistic Ethnography?
2023
Can we really talk about advanced linguistic ethnography, and if so, what does it look like? This paper offers quite a personal view of training programmes, PhDs, interdisciplinary relationships and academic career structures, covering …
Key words: applied linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, methodology
WP309 Language policy 4.0
2023
Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning. However, such media have increasingly become central sites of everyday linguistic …
Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0
WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect
2023
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 up to multilingualism instead. After a historical sketch of …
Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship
WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
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 and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP304 Emotions and globalization
2022
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how emotions are significant in the context of an increasingly globalized world, especially in relation to the phenomenon of migration. Research in many academic disciplines during the last two decades …
Key words: emotions; globalization; transnationalization; migration; language; discourse; embodiment
WP303 Circulation in the manosphere: Mobile matrices of reactionary masculinity
2022
Understanding how extremist ideas spread in stylized and enregistered forms is a matter of some urgency for feminist and critical scholarship, and this paper investigates the global spread of anti-feminist and right-wing discourses in the …
Key words: anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, enregisterment, manosphere, nofap, translocal style
WP302 Multilinguals as Others in society & academia: Challenges of belonging under a monolingual habitus
2022
Public discourse in a range of countries has been reported to be characterised by Othering practices that support dichotomies between a national and monolingual “in-group” and multilingual speakers who are constructed as secondary citizens and …
Key words: Multilingualism; language ideology; othering; linguistics
WP301 What makes for a ‘good university’: Dialogue from a southern faculty
2022
In (post-)Covid conditions of precarity and epistemic challenge, what makes for a ‘good’ degree or programme of learning? How do we create spaces that encourage the development of critical thought that builds engaged, informed citizens? How do …
WP300 Sectors and the workplace in language teaching: Differences, links and alliances?
2022
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 and their freedom for manoeuvre without …
Key words: language education, multilingualism, sectors