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The ideological positioning of heritage language learners: A critical discourse analysis of world language teacher preparation textbooks 传统语言学习者的思想定位:世界语言教师备课教材的批判性话语分析
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1111/modl.70008
Katharine E. Burns, Tracy Quan
In recent years, critical applied linguists have increasingly prioritized uncovering and reckoning with language ideologies in language teaching and learning. Additionally, US‐based studies have documented various language ideologies in heritage and nonheritage language textbooks and departments. However, little work exists on the ideological foundations of instructional materials for training language instructors. Previous research shows that instructors in the United States often feel underprepared to teach heritage language learners (HLLs) because of how world language teacher education typically prioritizes nonheritage learners and separates these student populations. Using critical discourse analysis, this study systematically analyzes how HLLs are positioned in three popular textbooks (as determined by a nationwide faculty survey) used in US university‐level methodology courses for language teacher training. The findings reveal three recurring ideologies surrounding HLLs across the textbooks: (a) ideology of authenticity (e.g., HLLs are not associated with authentic speakers and contexts), (b) ideology of presumed target learner population (e.g., HLLs are typically erased or designated as a special case), and (c) ideology of a standard language (e.g., local and HLL language varieties are excluded and/or stigmatized). Implications for instructor training and classroom practices are discussed, such as the incorporation of critical language awareness and evidence‐based sociolinguistic information.
近年来,批判性应用语言学家在语言教学和学习中越来越重视对语言意识形态的揭示和思考。此外,基于美国的研究已经在传统和非传统语言教科书和部门中记录了各种语言意识形态。然而,关于语言教师培训教材的思想基础的研究却很少。先前的研究表明,由于世界语言教师教育通常优先考虑非传统语言学习者,并将这些学生群体分开,美国的教师经常觉得自己在教授传统语言学习者(hls)方面准备不足。运用批判性话语分析,本研究系统地分析了美国大学语言教师培训方法论课程中使用的三种流行教科书(由全国教师调查确定)中hls的定位。研究结果揭示了教科书中围绕高水平语言的三种反复出现的意识形态:(a)真实性意识形态(例如,高水平语言与真实的说话者和语境无关),(b)假定目标学习者群体的意识形态(例如,高水平语言通常被删除或指定为特殊情况),以及(c)标准语言意识形态(例如,本地和高水平语言变体被排除和/或污名化)。讨论了对教师培训和课堂实践的影响,例如将批判性语言意识和基于证据的社会语言学信息结合起来。
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Quiet threat: Insufficient effort responding in applied linguistics and its impact 无声的威胁:应用语言学应对力度不足及其影响
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1111/modl.70000
Melissa Dan Wang, Xiaoli Su, Icy Lee
Self‐report surveys are widely used in applied linguistics. Nevertheless, insufficient effort responding—often stemming from a lack of motivation from participants—can compromise survey data quality and distort research findings. This study investigated insufficient effort responding through an online survey assessing second language (L2) teachers’ assessment literacy, employing multiple methods to identify insufficient effort responding: an attention‐check item, self‐reported engagement, response time, and the post hoc index lz . Results indicated that 1.9% to 26.4% of participants exhibited signs of insufficient effort responding, depending on the method used. Insufficient effort responding distorted sample distributions by inflating means and standard deviations and negatively impacted scale reliability and model fit, both of which improved after removing flagged responses. Additionally, insufficient effort responding was less prevalent among older participants, and participants who perceived the survey as “intriguing” or “valuable” reported higher engagement. Furthermore, completing the survey as a favor for friends encouraged participants to put more effort into their responses. Our findings highlight the importance of addressing insufficient effort responding in survey‐based studies. Practical guidelines are provided for improving survey design and administration, emphasizing strategies to prevent and identify insufficient effort responding, thereby enhancing the reliability and validity of self‐report measures in applied linguistics research.
自我报告调查在应用语言学中被广泛使用。然而,不够努力的回应——通常源于参与者缺乏动机——会损害调查数据的质量并扭曲研究结果。本研究通过一项评估第二语言教师评估素养的在线调查来调查努力不足的反应,采用多种方法来识别努力不足的反应:注意检查项目、自我报告的参与度、反应时间和事后指数lz。结果表明,根据使用的方法,1.9%至26.4%的参与者表现出努力不足的迹象。不充分的努力通过夸大均值和标准差来扭曲样本分布,并对量表可靠性和模型拟合产生负面影响,在删除标记响应后,这两者都得到了改善。此外,不够努力的回答在年龄较大的参与者中不那么普遍,认为调查“有趣”或“有价值”的参与者报告了更高的参与度。此外,作为对朋友的帮助,完成调查鼓励参与者在回答问题时付出更多的努力。我们的研究结果强调了在基于调查的研究中解决努力不足的重要性。本文提供了改进调查设计和管理的实用指导方针,强调了防止和识别反应不足的策略,从而提高了应用语言学研究中自我报告措施的可靠性和有效性。
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Forthcoming in The Modern Language Journal, 110 (Supplement) 《现代语言杂志》,110(增刊)
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/modl.70016
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Call for papers in a special thematic collection of The Modern Language Journal 《现代语言杂志》专题征集论文
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/modl.70005
Ali Al‐Hoorie, Phil Hiver
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Aptitude complexes: Expanding our view of language aptitude 天赋情结:拓展我们对语言天赋的看法
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/modl.70002
Lani Freeborn, Sible Andringa, Judith Rispens
In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact. In this article, we consider the affordances and implications of working toward a broader theory of language aptitude. Inspired by the theory of aptitude complexes, we examine the joint functioning of cognitive, affective, conative, and contextual processes in L2 learning. We conducted a large, exploratory study of aptitude with 544 learners of L2 Dutch. We used exploratory graph analysis to estimate a partial correlation network of 25 variables, combined with a community detection algorithm to identify communities of closely related variables. Results showed five communities of aptitude variables: cognitive abilities, proficiency and use, motivation and effort, self‐beliefs and emotion, and pro‐social behaviors. Learners with higher levels of multilingualism and less external pressure to learn Dutch made more L2 gains. Results also showed that L2 use and attitudes toward the Dutch community had an effect on L2 gains, via proficiency level and length of residence. Our findings fit with the theoretical framework and highlight the importance of working toward a multivariate, integrative theory of language aptitude.
在第二语言研究中,天赋通常被视为一个多成分的认知结构。然而,我们知道,除了认知能力之外,二语学习还受到多学习者个体差异(id)的影响,并且这些id相互作用。在这篇文章中,我们考虑了对更广泛的语言能力倾向理论的支持和影响。受能力倾向复合体理论的启发,我们研究了二语学习中认知、情感、意向性和语境过程的联合功能。我们对544名第二语言荷兰语学习者进行了一项大型的、探索性的能力倾向研究。我们使用探索性图分析来估计25个变量的部分相关网络,并结合社区检测算法来识别密切相关变量的社区。结果显示了五种能力倾向变量:认知能力、熟练程度和使用、动机和努力、自我信念和情感以及亲社会行为。掌握多种语言水平较高、学习荷兰语的外部压力较小的学习者在第二语言方面的收获更多。结果还表明,第二语言的使用和对荷兰社区的态度通过熟练程度和居住时间对第二语言的学习有影响。我们的研究结果与理论框架相吻合,并强调了建立多元、综合的语言能力理论的重要性。
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Decolonial and antiracist teacher education practice: Challenges and alternatives 非殖民主义和反种族主义教师教育实践:挑战和选择
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1111/modl.13015
Ryuko Kubota, Suhanthie Motha
Decolonial and antiracist perspectives offer critical and humanizing approaches to supporting justice‐affirming language teacher education. In this commentary, we provide a conceptual grounding for decolonial and antiracist pedagogies as constitutive of justice‐affirming language education. These pedagogical approaches encourage students, teachers, and teacher educators to question normalized assumptions that reinforce inequality among groups of people from diverse backgrounds, perpetuate colonial oppression of Indigenous peoples, and undermine our relationality and respect for land and environment. While decolonial and antiracist approaches envision the construction of more just societies and human relations, some caveats need to be addressed and overcome. These include the tendency to conflate decoloniality with social justice, which leads to neglecting the ongoing colonial oppression experienced by Indigenous people; scholars’ complicity with the neoliberal pressure and competition that exacerbate the theory–practice gap; the misconception that North American justice discourse is universal; and injudicious participation in cancel culture as an exclusive approach to promoting a social justice agenda. We advocate for more open, contextual, and restorative practice by centering the intertwined synergy of teacher identity and critical reflexivity in teacher education and, simultaneously, demanding that our institutions take equal responsibility for transformation.
非殖民主义和反种族主义的观点为支持正义-肯定语言教师教育提供了批判性和人性化的方法。在这篇评论中,我们为非殖民主义和反种族主义教学法提供了一个概念基础,这些教学法是肯定正义的语言教育的组成部分。这些教学方法鼓励学生、教师和教师教育者质疑正常化的假设,这些假设加剧了不同背景人群之间的不平等,使对土著人民的殖民压迫永久化,并破坏了我们的关系以及对土地和环境的尊重。虽然非殖民化和反种族主义的办法设想建立更公正的社会和人际关系,但需要处理和克服一些警告。其中包括将非殖民化与社会正义混为一谈的倾向,这导致忽视土著人民正在遭受的殖民压迫;学者与新自由主义压力和竞争的共谋加剧了理论与实践的差距;认为北美司法话语具有普遍性的误解;不明智地参与取消文化作为促进社会正义议程的唯一途径。我们提倡以教师教育中教师身份和批判性反思的相互交织的协同作用为中心,开展更加开放、情境化和恢复性的实践,同时要求我们的机构承担转型的同等责任。
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Critical reflection for transformative praxis in decolonizing language teacher education: Toward ontoepistemic freedom and pluralism 非殖民化语言教师教育变革实践的批判性反思:走向本体论自由与多元主义
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1111/modl.13018
Katrina Liu
This article first provides a quick overview of language education in the context of colonialism and epistemicide, summarizing some of the roles that different approaches to language education and language teacher education have taken within those systems. It then briefly describes the theoretical foundations of critical reflection for transformative learning and its potential application as both analytical and pedagogical tools in teacher education before commenting on each article in this special issue in relation to its unique contribution to the development of transformative language teacher education through the engagement with stages in the cycle of critical reflection for transformative learning. It ends with notes toward a framework of critical reflection for transformative praxis in the context of decolonizing language teacher education for the ultimate goal of ontoepistemic freedom and pluralism.
本文首先简要概述了殖民主义和知识灭绝背景下的语言教育,总结了不同的语言教育方法和语言教师教育在这些系统中所扮演的角色。然后简要描述了批判性反思对转型学习的理论基础及其在教师教育中作为分析和教学工具的潜在应用,然后对本期特刊的每篇文章进行评论,通过参与转型学习的批判性反思周期的各个阶段,对转型语言教师教育的发展做出独特贡献。在以本体认识自由和多元主义为最终目标的非殖民化语言教师教育背景下,为变革实践提供批判性反思框架。
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Introducing the special issue. Critical reflections on colonial pedagogies: Lessons learned for language teacher education 介绍本期特刊。对殖民主义教学法的批判性反思:语言教师教育的经验教训
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1111/modl.13014
Michele Back, Romina Peña‐Pincheira, Daniela Silva
This introduction to the special issue situates critical reflection as a central praxis for decolonizing language teacher education (LTE). Against the backdrop of persistent colonial, racial, and neoliberal injustices in global educational systems, we propose a critical reflection framework as an organizing structure through which to examine and disrupt dominant pedagogical paradigms in LTE. We clarify the nuanced distinctions and interconnections among decolonial, antiracist, and critical pedagogies, and articulate a vision of LTE that foregrounds Indigenous sovereignty, epistemic plurality, and relational transformation. The articles in this issue reflect a diversity of theoretical and methodological orientations but share a collective commitment to praxis‐oriented, collaborative, and contextually grounded approaches to research and teaching. We argue that decolonial LTE requires not only critical awareness but also sustained, recursive cycles of reflection and action—rooted in community engagement and onto‐epistemic responsibility. This special issue offers tools, models, and provocations for language teacher educators seeking to engage in such transformative work.
这篇专题导论将批判性反思定位为非殖民化语言教师教育的核心实践。在全球教育体系中持续存在的殖民主义、种族主义和新自由主义不公正的背景下,我们提出了一个批判性反思框架,作为一种组织结构,通过它来检查和破坏LTE中占主导地位的教学范式。我们澄清了非殖民化、反种族主义和批判教学法之间的细微差别和相互联系,并阐明了LTE的愿景,即土著主权、认知多元化和关系转型。本刊的文章反映了理论和方法取向的多样性,但共同致力于以实践为导向,合作和情境为基础的研究和教学方法。我们认为,非殖民化的LTE不仅需要批判性意识,还需要持续的、递归的反思周期和植根于社区参与和认知责任的行动。本期特刊为寻求从事这种变革工作的语言教师教育工作者提供了工具、模型和启发。
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Conquistador–settler grammars: Borders and boundaries of the colonial geographies of language 征服者-定居者语法:语言的殖民地地理的边界和边界
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1111/modl.13019
Romina Stephanie Peña‐Pincheira, Alexandra Allweiss
This article explores the coloniality of language from decolonial feminist and critical ecological linguistic frameworks, centering and building on the notion of conquistador–settler grammars. Through moments in our research in Chile, Guatemala, and the United States, we analyze the multiple ways conquistador–settler grammars are embedded in language (teacher) education and enact violence and erasure. In particular, through the cycles of critical reflection, we focus on curricular, ecological, and generational refusals in schooling and language teacher education (LTE) as they presented themselves across geographic spaces and moments in our research and embodied experiences and practices. In Chile, we discuss the use, reproduction, and futurity of coloniality through nation–state symbols, religious rituals, and rote memory native‐speakerism. In Guatemala, we share how Maya Chuj students and educators navigated, took up, and resisted persistent policies and practices of Indigenous language bracketing and erasure. We connect these moments and lessons to our roles and experience as teacher educators in the United States. Overall, we trace the colonial entanglements and conquistador–settler grammars that are made visible when we look at LTE geographically and ecologically and center “otherwise” possibilities and decolonial feminist frameworks and (re)imaginings for LTE.
本文以征服者-定居者语法概念为中心,从非殖民女性主义和批判生态语言学的框架出发,探讨语言的殖民性。通过我们在智利、危地马拉和美国的研究,我们分析了征服者-定居者语法嵌入语言(教师)教育并实施暴力和抹除的多种方式。特别是,通过批判性反思的循环,我们关注学校教育和语言教师教育(LTE)中的课程、生态和代际拒绝,因为它们在我们的研究中跨越地理空间和时刻呈现出来,并体现了经验和实践。在智利,我们通过民族国家符号、宗教仪式和死记硬背的母语主义来讨论殖民的使用、再现和未来。在危地马拉,我们分享玛雅Chuj学生和教育工作者如何驾驭、接受和抵制将土著语言划入分类和抹去的政策和做法。我们将这些时刻和教训与我们作为美国教师教育者的角色和经验联系起来。总的来说,当我们从地理和生态角度看待LTE,并以“其他”可能性和非殖民化女权主义框架以及LTE的(重新)想象为中心时,我们追溯了殖民纠缠和征服者-定居者语法,这些语法变得可见。
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Monolingual and multilingual teacher candidates: A critical language‐related events analysis 单语和多语教师候选人:关键语言相关事件分析
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1111/modl.13021
Daniela Silva
This study examines critical language‐related events (CLREs) experienced by 28 teacher candidates (TCs) from various content areas at a US Hispanic‐serving institution, employing a critical reflection framework. Through narrative inquiry, it examines how these events shape TCs’ worldviews and behaviors about language use, language learning, and language teaching. The research identifies six main types of CLREs, with language discrimination and translation being the most common. These events primarily occur in educational and work contexts, affecting monolingual and multilingual TCs differently. The study reveals that such experiences often prompt language advocacy among multilingual TCs and increase language awareness among monolingual TCs. The findings highlight the need for language teacher education to address CLREs and support linguistically diverse TCs. By incorporating critical reflection on CLREs, teacher educators can equip future teachers to navigate the complexities of multilingual classrooms and challenge existing language ideologies. The study recommends further research on how TCs implement transformative practices based on their experiences with CLREs, as well as how LTE can effectively support this process.
本研究采用批判性反思框架,考察了来自美国西班牙裔服务机构不同内容领域的28名教师候选人(tc)所经历的关键语言相关事件(CLREs)。通过叙事探究,它考察了这些事件如何塑造tc关于语言使用、语言学习和语言教学的世界观和行为。该研究确定了六种主要的clre类型,其中语言歧视和翻译是最常见的。这些事件主要发生在教育和工作环境中,对单语和多语tc的影响不同。研究表明,这些经历往往促使多语母语使用者提倡语言,并增强单语母语使用者的语言意识。研究结果强调了语言教师教育需要解决clre问题,并支持语言多样化的tc。通过结合对CLREs的批判性反思,教师教育者可以使未来的教师掌握多语言课堂的复杂性,并挑战现有的语言意识形态。该研究建议进一步研究运营商如何根据他们在clre方面的经验实施变革实践,以及LTE如何有效地支持这一过程。
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