Pub Date : 2023-04-22DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2189264
Sarah Hopkyns
ABSTRACT Unlike other areas of the Middle East, where nationalism indexes war, border disputes and the dichotomy of ‘us / them’, nationalism in the UAE is usually considered ‘banal’. Banal nationalism, which refers to everyday unconscious flagging of nationalism, receives less attention than ‘hot’ nationalism. However, banal nationalism is not benign. Rather, chronotopic complexities in ‘imagined communities’ impact intercultural communication and belonging in diverse societies. With almost 90% of the UAE’s population being foreign residents, many residents have loyalties and ideological habits from both their country of birth and country of residence. Here, a ‘third space’ often emerges whereby notions of belonging are complex and multilayered. Paradoxical discourses around the creation of ‘authentic’ national spaces run parallel to discourses of tolerance and cosmopolitanism. This article aims to critically assess the implications of contemporary banal, civic, and cultural nationalism to inform future research directions in the UAE setting and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-22DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2184826
N. Curran
ABSTRACT This article considers the potential of language-focused online teaching platforms (OTPs) for fostering intercultural communication among their users. Drawing on interviews alongside an analysis of two OTPs websites, I argue that OTPs' webpages (re)produce banal nationalism grounded in nation-language congruence and instrumentalist language ideologies that conceive of language learning in terms of potential socioeconomic gains. However, I also find that: (1) learners' experiences can result in them questioning essentialist language ideologies; and (2) many users embrace a language ideology of conversational cosmopolitanism, which is premised on open-minded interaction with others and is consistent with the goals of intercultural communication educators.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-22DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2187058
Annette Rasmussen
ABSTRACT Citizenship education in Denmark is considered as having a long history, not least as an important part of the folk high school tradition. More recently, it has become an important ingredient in the process for immigrants to obtain Danish citizenship. The focus of this paper is to analyse how the above types of citizenship education build on a particular imagining of the nation by engaging with the tradition and content of citizenship education as linked with the folk high schools and the preparation for the citizenship test. This is analysed within a critical interculturalist perspective and with Denmark as case.
{"title":"Imagining and building the nation through citizenship education: an interculturalist perspective on the case of Denmark","authors":"Annette Rasmussen","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2187058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2187058","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Citizenship education in Denmark is considered as having a long history, not least as an important part of the folk high school tradition. More recently, it has become an important ingredient in the process for immigrants to obtain Danish citizenship. The focus of this paper is to analyse how the above types of citizenship education build on a particular imagining of the nation by engaging with the tradition and content of citizenship education as linked with the folk high schools and the preparation for the citizenship test. This is analysed within a critical interculturalist perspective and with Denmark as case.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"268 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42280559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2180514
Sarah Jernigan, Sevsem Cicek-Okay, S. Kroeger, A. Beydoun, Riham M Alwan
ABSTRACT Many refugees have unique health needs that may result from their resettlement. This study examined how Syrian refugees in the Cincinnati area prefer to receive medical information and the role that interpreters encompass in the doctor-patient relationship. Findings indicated that participants prefer to receive medical information via in-person interpreters, translated paper or digital materials, or text messages. Refugees from this study expressed that interpreters were commonly not present for medical visits and language confusion occasionally occurred even when they attended. Due to negative experiences, participants from this study did not always view interpreters as cultural brokers. العديد من اللاجئين لديهم احتياجات صحية فريدة قد تنتج عن إعادة توطينهم. درست هذه الدراسة كيف يفضل اللاجئون السوريون في منطقة سينسيناتي تلقي المعلومات الطبية والدور الذي يلعبه المترجمون الفوريون في العلاقة بين الطبيب والمريض. أشارت النتائج إلى أن المشاركين يفضلون تلقي المعلومات الطبية من خلال مترجمين شخصيًا أو ورق مترجَم أو مواد رقمية أو رسائل نصية. أعرب اللاجئون من هذه الدراسة عن عدم وجود المترجمين الفوريين للزيارات الطبية وأن الارتباك اللغوي يحدث أحيانًا حتى أثناء حضورهم. بسبب التجارب السلبية ، لم ينظر المشاركون في هذه الدراسة دائمًا إلى المترجمين الفوريين على أنهم وسطاء ثقافيون .
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2175846
Qianqian Zhang‐Wu
ABSTRACT This study focused on the experiences of three Asian undergraduate students at a private urban institution in the United States. The findings indicate that the participants' racial, cultural and linguistic identities are dynamic and complex, echoing features indicated by the concept of superdiversity. Yet, under the influences of the rising nationalism and the strong grip of monolingualism, participants have been constantly under the pressure from English-only ideologies and the so-called forever-foreigner stereotype against Asian Americans. This study sheds light on rethinking higher education teaching and learning from the perspectives of marginalized students in the era simultaneously featuring superdiversity and nationalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2175847
Terry A. Osborn, M. Wagner
ABSTRACT Although language education should be ideally positioned to help students develop a nuanced understanding of languages, cultures, nations/countries, and identities these concepts have often been conflated in practice (see, e.g. Reagan & Osborn, 2021). This can result in othering in depictions of speakers of the language being learned (e.g. Osborn, 2021; Palfreyman, 2005) and delegitimizing certain language use(r)s. We share preliminary results from a study in which language educators who adopted critical approaches, such as teaching for social justice (Osborn, 2006) or intercultural citizenship (Byram, 2008, have addressed these questions in practice and discuss ways to disrupt harmful practices.
{"title":"Revisiting ‘foreignness’: Nationalism and language education","authors":"Terry A. Osborn, M. Wagner","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2175847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2175847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although language education should be ideally positioned to help students develop a nuanced understanding of languages, cultures, nations/countries, and identities these concepts have often been conflated in practice (see, e.g. Reagan & Osborn, 2021). This can result in othering in depictions of speakers of the language being learned (e.g. Osborn, 2021; Palfreyman, 2005) and delegitimizing certain language use(r)s. We share preliminary results from a study in which language educators who adopted critical approaches, such as teaching for social justice (Osborn, 2006) or intercultural citizenship (Byram, 2008, have addressed these questions in practice and discuss ways to disrupt harmful practices.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"347 - 359"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47319154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2023.2168010
Maria Grazia Imperiale, G. Fassetta, Sahar Alshobaki
ABSTRACT This article discusses the language needs analysis which informed the development of a beginner Arabic language course for Scottish primary education staff who work with Arabic-speaking refugee children and families. Interviews and focus group were carried out with: Scottish educators; Arabic-speaking refugee children; and parents/carers. They highlighted the following language needs for the course: (a) language for hospitality; (b) language for wellbeing; and (c) language for school. In this article we highlight the language needs as identified by refugee pupils and their families and we start a discussion on the importance of teaching a refugee language within formal educational settings.
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