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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
WP19 Continuity and change in views of society in applied linguistics
2002
This paper starts out by looking at a general shift in the humanities and social sciences, where it is the interface between modernity and post-/late-modernity rather than the encounter between tradition and modernity that is now becoming the …
Key words: sociolinguistics
WP18 Education in England and Speakers of Languages Other than English
2001
This paper charts deteriorating state school provision for speakers of languages other than English in the 15 years or so since 1984, when the first edition of Language in the British Isles (Trudgill (ed) 1984) was published. It focuses primarily on …
Key words: education
WP17 Globalisation, Diaspora and Language Education in England
2001
This paper seeks to: …
Key words: globalisation, language education
WP15 Speech community
2000
Speech community' has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological, epistemic and political cross-currents, and in this paper I will try to trace some of its most important shifts in meaning since the 1960s. My discussion is divided …
Key words: speech community
WP12 Multilingualism & Heteroglossia In and Out of School: End-of-Project Report
2000
This project uses interactional sociolinguistics1 to investigate the ways in which adolescents experiment with different dialects and languages at school. It has grown out of research which studied the ways in which youngsters use both their own and …
Key words: multilingualism
WP11 Dichotomies, Difference and Ritual in Second Language Learning and Teaching
1998
This paper questions the distinction between 'natural' and 'instructed' language learning. It first of all introduces two extracts in which adolescents use Panjabi as a second language in peer group recreation, and then shows how these contradict …
Key words: SLA
WP10 Teaching and Learning Bilingually: A Survey of Recent Research
1998
Classroom-based research in bilingual settingsi is now entering its third decade. Its origins lie in studies which were carried out in bilingual education programmes in the United States in the latter half of the 1970s. Over the course of the last …
Key words: bilingualism, language teaching
WP9 Narrative, Argument and Literacy: A Comparative Study of the Narrative Discourse Development of Monolingual and Bilingual 5-10 Year Old Learners
1997
In order to find out more about bilingual children's narrative discourse acquisition, this paper analyses and compares the oral narrative discourse of bilingual and monolingual 5-10 year olds in two ways. It uses (a) Labov?s taxonomy to measure …