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Catherine Tebaldi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Although often seen as places of culture, cultivation and creativity, language courses borrow the language of creativity for test-centered practices. Research in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology has long recognized language courses as sites for the legitimation of neoliberal ideals that emphasize language as global, individual, and…
Descriptors: Creativity, High Schools, Sociolinguistics, Courses
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Li, Jia; Han, Huamei – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Based on a larger ethnography (Li, 2017. Social Reproduction and Migrant Education: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Burmese Students' Learning Experiences at a Border High School in China. (PhD), Macquarie University. http://www.languageonthemove.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LI_Jia_Social_reproduction_and_migrant_education.pdf) and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Learning Experience, High School Students
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Uwen, God'sgift Ogban; Bassey, Victor Offiong; Nta, Eno Grace – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This paper seeks to examine the emerging sociolinguistic trends in Nigeria with the view to ascertaining the use of English as a first language among its speakers particular in Calabar, Nigeria. The study adopts Vygotsky's (1978) Social Interactionist Theory. The theory is relevant because it accounts for the intentional and changing linguistic…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage
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Shin, Hyunjung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
Drawing from a 2.4-year ethnography with Korean Early Study Abroad (ESA, pre-college-aged study abroad) students in Toronto high schools, I examine the intersections among race, class, language, culture and citizenship (including immigrant status) in the identity construction and language learning of these students. Conceptualising race as a…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Global Approach, Race, Minority Groups
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Relaño Pastor, Ana María – Language Policy, 2015
This article analyzes how multilingual education in the Madrid region has been addressed through the medium of Spanish/English content and language integrated learning (CLIL) bilingual programs, widely implemented in public schools of this region in the last decade. By adopting a critical interpretive perspective (Tollefson in "Language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Course Content
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading