Challenging moments as opportunities to learn: The role of nonverbal interactional resources in dealing with conflicts in English as a lingua franca classroom interactions
This study sequentially analyzes interactional conflicts among students and instructors in writing classrooms at a U.S. university in which English functions as a lingua franca, highlighting how students from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds employ nonverbal interactional resources (e.g., silence, gaze, and gesture) along with speech when disagreeing and/or disengaging. The consensus-oriented and cooperative aspects of English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions have been widely documented (e.g., Mauranen, 2012, Seidlhofer, 2001), but recent research (e.g., Jenks, 2012) has started to illuminate aspects of unc...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Conflicting ideologies of English in Korea: Study of bilingual adolescents
This study presented both quantitative findings with turn and qualitative findings through narratives of case study in order to understand the students’ language choices and the language ideologies embedded in families. The findings showed that their language choices are influenced by a few different elements. First, the interlocutors were a crucial affecting element of the participants’ language choices in the contexts of Korean monolingual ideology. The peer groups also influenced the bilinguals’ language choices. Above all, the parents’ attitudes influenced by social ideologies affected the bilingual students’...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 16, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Swearing in class: Institutional morality in dispute
Publication date: December 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 48Author(s): Catherine Doherty, Adon Berwick, Rowena McGregorAbstractThis paper explores how swearing in classrooms is variably construed and managed as a moral problem, and how classroom settings can demand higher standards than broader society. We review sociolinguistic understandings of Anglophone settings regarding what constitutes ‘bad’ language, the pragmatics of swearing across society, and trends over time, to trace a growing tolerance in public settings and media, particularly in Australia. We then review literature regarding swearing in ...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“English is my only weapon”: Neoliberal language ideologies and youth metadiscourse in South Korea
This study explores language ideologies among adolescents attending a South Korean English academy. Current research on language ideologies and English learning has primarily been conducted in countries where English is predominantly spoken, or among adult learners. This study explores these dynamics in South Korea, a country where English is not widely spoken, yet plays a key role in educational and economic opportunity. We analyzed written questionnaires from 27 adolescents positioned as “near-native” English speakers within their English academy. Our analysis documented specific audiences participants invoked in the...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Spotlighting pedagogic metalanguage in Reading to Learn – How teachers build legitimate knowledge during tutorial sessions
Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): Anna Maria Hipkiss, Pernilla Andersson VargaAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of professional metalanguage and is a contribution to the discussion of professional development in literacy teaching. By analysing tutorial sessions within a professional development programme, we investigate how teachers and experts leading the professional development programme, negotiate the new literacy metalanguage that is to be built and appropriated during the PD programme. LCT (Legitimation Code Theory), in particular the dimension of Semantics, ha...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Controversial topics and teacher answerability in Swedish for immigrants classes for refugees
Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): Hanna BrookieAbstractThis paper uses a dialogic framework to analyse how teachers of Swedish as a second language to adult refugee learners in Sweden position themselves in terms of both planned and contingent approaches in the classroom in relation to values teaching and controversial topics. The paper draws on a narrative study which explored the stances of five Swedish for Immigrants teachers in relation to problematic topics through the use of narrative frames, picture prompts and interviews. Findings from the study suggest that teache...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Mediating hybrid spaces in the bilingual science class by learning to cultivate children's metaphors
This study highlights the significance of cultivating opportunities for metaphorical associations initiated by bilingual children as opportunities for science teaching and learning. (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 18, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Spoken written-language in writing center talk
Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): Jo Mackiewicz, Isabelle ThompsonAbstractOur goals are to examine the validity of concerns about plagiarism and, more speculatively, about short circuiting students’ thinking in writing center tutoring. Specifically, we describe spoken written-language (SWL), the oral language that writing center tutors produce for potential use in the student writers’ written products. We analyze SWL from a specialized corpus of 37 conferences in terms of three variables: (1) the length of each SWL occurrence, (2) the frequency with which SWL occurs in...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 9, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Bocadillos and the karate club: Translingual identity narratives from study abroad participants
Publication date: Available online 1 September 2018Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Julia Menard-Warwick (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 2, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Enabling audience participation and stimulating discussion after student presentations in English as a foreign language seminars
Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): František TůmaAbstractAlthough discussions after student presentations play an important role in higher education seminars, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which the presenters, teachers and audience members actually interact. Building on a data set consisting of 12 videotaped follow-up discussions collected in an undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) seminar, this conversation-analytic study focuses on teacher practices and shows how teachers can build on previous student utterances to improve the cl...
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 31, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Impact of genre-based pedagogy on students’ academic literacy development in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
This study aims to investigate how genre-based pedagogy can be implemented to facilitate students’ learning of content knowledge and academic literacy.One Integrated Humanities teacher implemented genre-based pedagogy with her Grade 8 students in an English-medium school in Hong Kong. Comparing the essays before and after the intervention, the students produced better argumentative essays in terms of logical development of ideas and use of academic language, which could be attributed to how the teacher incorporated language scaffolding in the lessons. These findings demonstrate the potential of genre-based pedagogy and i...
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Teachers’ shifting language ideologies and teaching practices in Philippine mother tongue classrooms
This study critically examines how elementary teachers’ language ideologies and teaching practices changed since the country institutionalized said policy. Using ethnographic methods, the researcher collected the data over 14 weeks in a predominantly Cebuano-speaking public elementary school in Northern Mindanao. The findings reveal that the elementary teachers were initially antagonistic toward MTB-MLE, but their attitude gradually shifted as they realized the pedagogical and learning benefits of mother tongue instruction in their own context. The study also found that translanguaging is often deployed by both teachers ...
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 15, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language resources to negotiate historical thinking in history classroom interactions
This article examines different patterns of language resources that both teacher and students use to incorporate other voices in history secondary-level classroom interactions. The study particularly centers on the analysis of interpersonal and ideational linguistic resources used by teachers and students that contribute to the inclusion of historical evidence in the discourse, in combination with the building of semantic waves (Maton, 2014, Maton, 2016) through the variation of semantic density and semantic gravity. The analysis shows that when teachers and students use a strong semantic gravity (SG+), they also have a te...
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Comparing rhetorical devices in history textbooks and teachers’ lessons: Implications for the development of academic language skills
Publication date: October 2018Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 47Author(s): J. Ricardo García, Manuel Montanero, Manuel Lucero, Isabel Cañedo, Emilio SánchezAbstractRhetorical devices signal the authors’ attitudes and intentions to their texts or their audiences. Mastering these resources characterises academic language proficiency and contributes to academic success. We explored whether oral and written academic texts provide different opportunities to gain knowledge about rhetorical devices and academic language. We compared 10 teachers’ lessons with 10 textbooks – matched according to educational level...
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
