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Swift, Kelsey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this three-paper dissertation project, I explore how 'English' becomes a recognizable object within the context of adult ESOL education. Building on scholarship on named languages (Garcia, 2019; Makoni & Pennycook, 2006), the historical construction of languages (Bonfiglio, 2010; Irvine & Gal, 2000), and raciolinguistic ideologies…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Although progress has been made since members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed the Students' Right to Their Own Language resolution (1974), there still remains a demand to examine youth perceptions of language. Such examinations can help teachers and researchers improve curricular choices, honor…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Student Attitudes, Position Papers, Student Rights
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Callahan, Laura – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Strategies for deciding which language to use when forms part of the sociolinguistic competence of speakers who can speak more than one language. Language choices are shaped by a number of factors, including linguistic proficiency of both speaker and interlocutor, the ingroup or outgroup status of each, and the setting in which an exchange takes…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes