‘You can…’: An examination of language-minoritized learners’ development of metalanguage and agency as users of academic language within a multivocal instructional approach
In this study, we examine the possibility of using student-generated metalanguage as a primary instructional resource for building knowledge of academic language (AL) and for fostering students’ agency as AL users. We conducted this study over three academic years in a linguistically diverse 11th-grade English classroom in a high school in the Northeastern United States. Three cohorts of students were participants in a newly-designed instructional unit focused on supporting AL learning as a core component of fostering access to school literacy practices. In our analysis of classroom talk and focus group interviews, we ex...
Source: Linguistics and Education - February 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
But mom! I’m not a Spanish Boy: Raciolinguistic socialization in a Two-Way Immersion bilingual program
This article is about the ways in which race and class impact socialization in a Two Way Immersion classroom - a process I refer to as raciolinguistic socialization. In line with the concept of raciolinguistic ideologies (Flores and Rosa, 2015), the term raciolinguistic socialization captures the ways in which race and class impact how language and literacy abilities are perceived and evaluated. I illustrate this process through the ethnographic stories of three Kindergarten students. Weaving together observations, recorded interactions, and parent interviews, I show the impact of raciolinguistic expectations on Latinx chi...
Source: Linguistics and Education - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Preference organization in English as a Medium of Instruction classrooms in a Turkish higher education setting
This study explores preference organization in an under-researched context, an English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) setting, and it specifically focuses on how a teacher displays dispreference for preceding learner turns. The data consist of 30 h of video recordings from two EMI classes, which were recorded for an academic term at a university in Turkey. Using Conversation Analysis, we demonstrate that the teacher employs a variety of interactional resources such as changing body position, gaze movements, hedging, and delaying devices to show dispreference for preceding student answers. Based on our empirical anal...
Source: Linguistics and Education - February 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“I still think there's a need for proper, academic, Standard English”: Examining a teacher's negotiation of multiple language ideologies
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Megan M. WeaverAbstractTo better understand writing teachers’ language ideologies and how they might challenge or support the implementation of Student's Right to Their Own Language (SRTOL) tenets in the classroom, this study examined the articulated language ideologies of a college writing instructor. In particular, I investigated how the instructor negotiates multiple language ideologies, including standard language ideology as well as more critical beliefs regarding language, to voice an appropriateness-based stance toward language v...
Source: Linguistics and Education - January 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Semiotic potential of gestures in multimodal ensembles: Narrative meanings produced by school narrators with intellectual disability
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Dominique Manghi Haquin, Fabiola Otárola Cornejo, Gerardo Godoy Echiburú, Isabel Aranda Godoy, Martín Álvarez Cruz, Carolina Badillo Vargas (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - January 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Alexandra Jaffe – In memoriam
Publication date: Available online 19 January 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Marilyn Martin-Jones (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - January 20, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Are females and males equitably represented? A study of early readers
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Jackie F.K. Lee, Andy C.O. ChinAbstractEarly readers can play a significant role in the intergenerational transmission of gender roles. The present study examines how females and males are represented in selected early readers recommended by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong for the promotion of ‘Reading to Learn’ and ‘Reading across the Curriculum’. The study used both manual and computational methods to examine how experiential and relational values are expressed through variables such as the ratio of female-to-male character ty...
Source: Linguistics and Education - January 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Navigating morality in neoliberal spaces of English language education
This article investigates teachers as they construct moral selves in the neoliberal context of private English language institutes in South Korea. Drawing on data from a two-year longitudinal study, it offers new insights on teacher morality construction using positioning analysis of narratives. Narrative analysis allows for situated, interactive, layered examinations of how teachers create moral selves. In their stories, explanations, justifications, and other linguistic devices mark positions in which teachers disagree with, yet align to neoliberal policies. These tensions illustrate how neoliberalism comes to be viewed ...
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Negotiating the terms of engagement: Humor as a resource for managing interactional trouble in after-school tutoring encounters
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Anne PomerantzAbstractThis paper examines how tutors and tutees negotiate the terms of their engagement within the context of an after-school program in the United States of America that pairs university students with immigrant children from Bangladesh for the purpose of working through the children's homework assignments. Drawing on insights and approaches from linguistic ethnography, it argues that humor plays a meaningful yet overlooked role both in managing the transactional and interpersonal dimensions of homework help sessions and i...
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Lexical characteristics of written language input across primary grades: An analysis of a Dutch corpus based lexicon
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Marlies de Zeeuw, Franc Grootjen, Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Agnes TellingsAbstractThe lexical written language input aimed at beginning readers may influence reading success. We analyzed a lexicon based on a corpus of Dutch reading materials for primary school children to gain insight into the frequency distribution of different word types, i.e. words with similar word characteristics, both per grade and across grades. The frequencies of monomorphemic, concrete words and of polysemous words remained relatively stable, whereas that of multimorp...
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language, ideology and education: The politics of textbooks in language education, X.L. Curdt-Christiansen, C. Weninger. Routledge, Abingdon and New York (2015), 226 pp. US$163.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-415-84038-5
Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): Congchao Hua, Weihong Wang (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 1, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
‘We throw away our books’: Students’ reading practices and identities
Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Cathy O'Shea, Sioux McKenna, Carol ThomsonAbstractThe aim of this research was to understand university students’ self-reported reading practices. The students attended the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, a historically black institution in a rural and under-resourced setting. A framework of New Literacy Studies (NLS) was used to understand students’ self-reported reading practices and the links between these and their identities. Tools provided by Gee, 2005, Gee, 2011 were applied to conduct a CDA of focus group discussions....
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 22, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“We’re talking about mobility:” Discourse strategies for promoting disciplinary knowledge and language in educational contexts
Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): Pia Nygård LarssonAbstractContent area teachers have a crucial task in promoting students’ building of disciplinary knowledge and language. This paper explores, on an elaborated theoretical foundation, how subject-specific knowledge and discourse in educational contexts may be discerned and promoted. The study draws on data from an interdisciplinary design-based three-year research project. Teacher–student interaction in a lower secondary science classroom is examined, and findings from analyzed video-recorded data reveal the complex...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 25, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Enchantment in storytelling: Co-operation and participation in children's aesthetic experience
Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): Asta Cekaite, Polly Björk-WillénAbstractIn early childhood education, storytelling has traditionally been seen as a learning activity that lays the groundwork for children's vocabulary and literacy development. The present study uses video-recorded storytelling events to examine young children's emotional involvement and aesthetic experiences during adult storytelling in a regular Swedish preschool for 1- to 3.5-year-olds. By adopting a multimodal interactional perspective on human sense-making, socialization, and literacy (Goodwin, 201...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
