Thorny issues with academic language: A perspective from scientific practice

IF 1.6 2区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2024.101334
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A debate over the construct of academic language (AL) has engendered significant polarization in the field of language education. The issues at the heart of the AL debate are thorny and persistently elusive to resolve. Yet they are not unpredictable, particularly when viewed from the perspective of how scientific communities advance knowledge. In this article, we highlight two thorny issues with AL from the perspective of scientific practice: (a) the modeling issue and (b) the paradigm issue. For each issue, we discuss methodological and pedagogical implications using examples from research on language use in STEM education. Further, we analyze how the two thorny issues have manifested in other contentious debates in language education (cognitive-social debate, translanguaging vs. codeswitching). Finally, we propose ways forward in light of the thorny issues toward advancing our collective knowledge as a community of researchers and practitioners committed to the education of language minoritized students.

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学术语言的棘手问题:科学实践的视角
关于学术语言(AL)的争论在语言教育领域造成了严重的两极分化。学术语言争论的核心问题十分棘手,始终难以解决。然而,这些问题并非不可预测,尤其是从科学界如何推动知识发展的角度来看。在本文中,我们从科学实践的角度强调了 AL 的两个棘手问题:(a) 建模问题和 (b) 范式问题。针对这两个问题,我们将以 STEM 教育中的语言使用研究为例,讨论其方法论和教学意义。此外,我们还分析了这两个棘手的问题是如何在语言教育的其他争论(认知-社会争论、翻译语言与代码转换)中体现出来的。最后,我们根据这些棘手的问题提出了前进的方向,以促进我们作为致力于语言少数群体学生教育的研究者和实践者社区的集体知识。
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期刊介绍: Linguistics and Education encourages submissions that apply theory and method from all areas of linguistics to the study of education. Areas of linguistic study include, but are not limited to: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology.
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