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WP39 Exploring linguistic and ethnic self among Korean students learning English
2006
During the past decade, identity has become one of the significant constructs in educational research. In particular, the recognition of learners? identity in the process of language learning marks a paradigm shift in Second Language Acquisition …
Key words: ESL, ethnic self, linguistics
WP37 Sociolinguistic scales
2006
Globalization compels disciplines such as sociolinguistics to unthink their theoretical fundamentals. In this paper, the notion of scale is introduced and its potential purchase for sociolinguistic analysis is discussed. Scale is a theoretical notion …
Key words: globalization, indexicality, inequality, norms, power, scale, sociolinguistics
WP36 Peripheral normativity: Literacy & the production of locality in a South African township school
2006
This paper reports on an ethnographic study of classroom practices in a township school in the Wesbank settlement near Cape Town, South Africa. Focusing on the ways in which a multilingual and highly diverse student population confronts English …
Key words: globalisation, literacy, locality, marginalisation, normativity, repertoires, South Africa, world Englishes
WP35 Popular culture consumption and identities at school
2006
This paper draws from a three-year project entitled ?Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction? that investigates the significance of teen consumption of media and popular culture within the everyday environment of a multi-ethnic secondary school. This …
WP34 Ethnography as counter-hegemony: Remarks on epistemology & method
2006
Ethnography is a strange scientific phenomenon. On the one hand, it can be seen as probably the only truly influential "invention" of anthropological linguistics, having triggered important developments in social-scientific fields as diverse as …
Key words: epistemology, ethnography, methodology
WP33 Dialogue in schools: Towards a pragmatic approach
2006
In this paper I question the relevance and appropriateness of prevailing ideals of dialogue for educational practice within schools.? First, I examine five core aspects common to most theories: dialogue as a communicative pattern, dialogue as a means …
Key words: education
WP32 Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes? narrative view of the world
2006
In what follows, I will introduce ethnopoetics in general terms, avoiding a technical expos? (for which, anyway, there is no substitute to reading Hymes? work) but focusing on the main theoretical assumptions underlying it. Next, I will engage in a …
Key words: ethnopoetics
WP31 Late modernity and social class: The view from sociolinguistics
2005
This paper is a non-technical introduction to some of the basic principles of sociolinguistic analysis, and it looks at how different accents get used in interaction, linking this to the issue of British social class.
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP30 Jamming the signal: The discourse & literacy practices of billboard liberators
2005
This study explores the practices of billboard liberators and attempts to provide an account of discourses that are increasingly important to the lives of the activists involved. …
WP29 Making millions: English, indexicality and fraud
2005
This paper focusing on e-mail spam hoax messages, originating from somewhere in the periphery of the world and sent to a large number of addressees in the core countries of the world system. It argues that the complex of linguistic, stylistic and …
Key words: English, indexicality
WP28 Doing ridiculous: Linguistic sabotage in an institutional context of monolingualism and standardisation
2005
This paper considers the way a group of Moroccan adolescents in Belgium engages with the hegemonic structures that envelop them at school by constructing playful linguistic sabotage. Much in contrast with general stereotypes about these boys? …
Key words: monolingualism, standardisation
WP27 Language, Class and Education
2005
The 20th Century saw efforts to redistribute wealth and income throughout most of the century, but over the last 25 years, material inequalities have persisted and in many ways increased. Traditionally, "class" has been a term used to define and …
WP26 Research and shifting perspectives on language education: A personal account
2004
Drawing on autobiographical experience, this paper reflects on the relationship between research and education.
Key words: language education, research
WP25 Reflexivity & the research interview: Habitus and class in parents? accounts of children in public care
2004
The central question of this paper is: what reflexivity look like when it is being fleshed out on the basis of the Bourdieuan concept of habitus and when interviewing occasions are seen as operating in a linguistic market which is oriented toward the …
Key words: methodology
WP24 Language & the Construction of Identities in Contemporary Europe: Notes towards a research
2003
These notes are designed as a ?data-theory? dialogue, and they consist of …
Key words: identity construction
WP23 Situating language rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited
2003
This paper argues for an ethnographic-sociolinguistic approach to the issue of linguistic rights. In much of the literature on linguistic rights a fundamentally flawed set of assumptions about language and society is being used, leading to …
WP22 Language and New Ethnicities ? Multilingual Youth and Diaspora
2003
Language shift and language maintenance have been useful heuristic notions, but they have always had an air of melancholia about them, linked with terms such as language loss and language death.? This paper explores how these sociolinguistic concerns …
Key words: multilingualism
WP21 Integrating School-Aged ESL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum
2003
The concept of ?integrating ESL learners into the mainstream curriculum? has been the subject of debate amongst educationalists and policy makers in many parts of the English-speaking countries in the past thirty years. The issues concerning the …
Key words: ESL
WP20 Interaction, Media Culture, and Adolescents at School: End-of-Project Report
2002
Funded under the Spencer Foundation?s Small Grant Program, this project focuses on an existing data-set of radio-microphone recordings, interviews and fieldnotes, collected in two London schools in 1997-8,2 and it aims: …
Key words: interaction, media culture