Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361
Juan Dong, Yawen Han
The global whim to introduce EMI policy in higher education is often accompanied by neoliberal discourses without considering the emotional effects on stakeholders. Following a critical post-structuralist lens, this qualitative study examines how the implementation of EMI impacts the emotions and agency of international students in Southwest China. The findings revealed that despite the neoliberal ideals of EMI leading to international students’ emotions of hope, pride, and expectation about their future employment and academic pursuits, they encountered many emotional struggles resulting from institutional classroom segregation, English insufficiency, and high-stake exams. To empower themselves and alleviate those emotional challenges, international students, as entreprenurial subjects, adopted agencies by exploiting digital space, seeking peer support and utilizing the local linguistic learning resources. The study closes with implications to promote students’ emotional awareness in policy making and implementation, calling for creating inclusive and supportive learning environments that optimize students’ academic success and overall well-being.
{"title":"“We feel excluded and isolated”: Multilingual international students’ emotions and agency in an EMI program","authors":"Juan Dong, Yawen Han","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global whim to introduce EMI policy in higher education is often accompanied by neoliberal discourses without considering the emotional effects on stakeholders. Following a critical post-structuralist lens, this qualitative study examines how the implementation of EMI impacts the emotions and agency of international students in Southwest China. The findings revealed that despite the neoliberal ideals of EMI leading to international students’ emotions of hope, pride, and expectation about their future employment and academic pursuits, they encountered many emotional struggles resulting from institutional classroom segregation, English insufficiency, and high-stake exams. To empower themselves and alleviate those emotional challenges, international students, as entreprenurial subjects, adopted agencies by exploiting digital space, seeking peer support and utilizing the local linguistic learning resources. The study closes with implications to promote students’ emotional awareness in policy making and implementation, calling for creating inclusive and supportive learning environments that optimize students’ academic success and overall well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381
Fergal Bradley
This practitioner-research (PR) paper examines Finnish university students’ learning experiences in an autonomy-focused English course through the lens of linguistic mudes. Mudes have been described as the change from being a learner to being a user of a language, an idea also common in learner autonomy. Following language counselling (also known as advising) sessions, the author recorded and reflected on student stories in a counselling journal, examining how the concept of mudes mapped on to students’ learning experiences in the course. The study employs Exploratory Practice (EP), Reflective Practice (RP), and Narrative Inquiry (NI) to develop a pedagogically sustainable and context-sensitive approach to PR, particularising mudes to the author's counselling practice. Reflexive thematic analysis of the journal generates four distinct learning narratives, corresponding and contrasting with the idea of mudes. These narratives illustrate how PR approaches can contribute both to local knowledge and practices and to wider research and practice communities.
{"title":"From a learner to a user? Exploring learning in language counselling through the lens of linguistic mudes","authors":"Fergal Bradley","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This practitioner-research (PR) paper examines Finnish university students’ learning experiences in an autonomy-focused English course through the lens of linguistic <em>mudes. Mudes</em> have been described as the change from being a learner to being a user of a language, an idea also common in learner autonomy. Following language counselling (also known as advising) sessions, the author recorded and reflected on student stories in a counselling journal, examining how the concept of <em>mudes</em> mapped on to students’ learning experiences in the course. The study employs Exploratory Practice (EP), Reflective Practice (RP), and Narrative Inquiry (NI) to develop a pedagogically sustainable and context-sensitive approach to PR, particularising <em>mudes</em> to the author's counselling practice. Reflexive thematic analysis of the journal generates four distinct learning narratives, corresponding and contrasting with the idea of <em>mudes</em>. These narratives illustrate how PR approaches can contribute both to local knowledge and practices and to wider research and practice communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380
Sergio Loza
This ethnographic study examines one instructor's Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF) practices as conceptualized based on the interactionist framework, involving four Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners in a beginning-level community college Spanish classroom. Based on analysis of interview and observational classroom data, the findings reveal how the instructor's OCF embodies language ideologies and imposes dominant norms on learners. Findings also describe how the instructor's OCF practices contain ideologically charged metalinguistic commentary that reinforces her subtractive teaching philosophy with regard to SHL learners. OCF as conceptualized within the interactionist framework is considered an inherently neutral practice that can facilitate language learning but the findings from this study call this assumption into question. Moreover, the study validates a need for alternative analytic frameworks that connect OCF to SHL pedagogy to further clarify its use with SHL learners.
{"title":"“Did you have some kind of blow to the head?”: Spanish heritage language learners, language ideologies and oral corrective feedback","authors":"Sergio Loza","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This ethnographic study examines one instructor's Oral Corrective Feedback (OCF) practices as conceptualized based on the interactionist framework, involving four Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners in a beginning-level community college Spanish classroom. Based on analysis of interview and observational classroom data, the findings reveal how the instructor's OCF embodies language ideologies and imposes dominant norms on learners. Findings also describe how the instructor's OCF practices contain ideologically charged metalinguistic commentary that reinforces her subtractive teaching philosophy with regard to SHL learners. OCF as conceptualized within the interactionist framework is considered an inherently neutral practice that can facilitate language learning but the findings from this study call this assumption into question. Moreover, the study validates a need for alternative analytic frameworks that connect OCF to SHL pedagogy to further clarify its use with SHL learners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356
Faythe Beauchemin , Beth Krone , Emily Machado , Kongji Qin , Anne Valauri , Paul Hartman
This article aims at theorizing transgressive classroom language. Taking up theories of languaging, critical childhood studies, and subjectivity, we theorize instances of transgressive classroom language as languaging acts that disrupt notions of propriety and appropriateness in the classroom. We articulate a heuristic framework for understanding how ideologies and power relations shape language norms in literacy instruction and how teachers and students counter such forces through transgressive languaging acts with examples from five classroom discourse studies. We conclude with a discussion of its implications and a call for critical listening in understanding students’ transgressive languaging acts in classroom learning.
{"title":"Toward a theory of transgressive classroom language","authors":"Faythe Beauchemin , Beth Krone , Emily Machado , Kongji Qin , Anne Valauri , Paul Hartman","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article aims at theorizing transgressive classroom language. Taking up theories of languaging, critical childhood studies, and subjectivity, we theorize instances of transgressive classroom language as languaging acts that disrupt notions of propriety and appropriateness in the classroom. We articulate a heuristic framework for understanding how ideologies and power relations shape language norms in literacy instruction and how teachers and students counter such forces through transgressive languaging acts with examples from five classroom discourse studies. We conclude with a discussion of its implications and a call for critical listening in understanding students’ transgressive languaging acts in classroom learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377
Chunhong Liu , Megan K. Barker , Qinghua Chen , Maurice M.W. Cheng , Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan , Angel M.Y. Lin
This study employed the social semiotic perspective and, in particular, thematic patterns theory which emphasizes the potential of language in constructing knowledge and views scientific concepts as institutionalized patterning of social semiotic resources. It examined (1) how patterns of semantic relations could help reveal students’ development of their scientific claims and (2) what factors may contribute to students’ thematic patterning. This study was situated in an undergraduate biology classroom in Canada and focused on a written biology task about water intoxification. With data collected from students’ writing and teaching materials, it revealed the divergent emergence of learner conceptions in the form of thematic patterns and identified three influential factors: (1) teachers’ pedagogical cut, (2) students’ knowledge transfer, and (3) the relationality, temporality, and locality of scientific reasoning in biology. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of thematic patterns theory in exploring learner conceptions and also bears pedagogical implications.
{"title":"“He drank too much Gatorade”: Exploring learner conceptions in scientific reasoning from a social semiotic perspective","authors":"Chunhong Liu , Megan K. Barker , Qinghua Chen , Maurice M.W. Cheng , Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan , Angel M.Y. Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2024.101377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study employed the social semiotic perspective and, in particular, thematic patterns theory which emphasizes the potential of language in constructing knowledge and views scientific concepts as institutionalized patterning of social semiotic resources. It examined (1) how patterns of semantic relations could help reveal students’ development of their scientific claims and (2) what factors may contribute to students’ thematic patterning. This study was situated in an undergraduate biology classroom in Canada and focused on a written biology task about water intoxification. With data collected from students’ writing and teaching materials, it revealed the divergent emergence of learner conceptions in the form of thematic patterns and identified three influential factors: (1) teachers’ pedagogical cut, (2) students’ knowledge transfer, and (3) the relationality, temporality, and locality of scientific reasoning in biology. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of thematic patterns theory in exploring learner conceptions and also bears pedagogical implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 101377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394
Ufuk Balaman
Digital literacy practices in multimodal interactional spaces, including video-mediated settings, are largely being recognized as a rich domain of research inquiry in pre-service language teacher education. This study presents findings from a telecollaborative partnership project in which small groups of pre-service language teachers collaboratively design, receive feedback for, implement, and reflect on telecollaborative tasks in and through video-mediated interactions. Using multimodal conversation analysis as the research methodology, the study describes on a micro-longitudinal basis how the collaborative design processes on an online task design tool, the DigiTask web app, create opportunities for pre-service teachers’ exploration of the technological affordances of video-mediated interaction while also interactionally managing the complex pedagogical, social interactional, and digital literacy practices in situ. More specifically, this study shows how pre-service teachers’ collaborative design-relevant actions facilitate the emergence of a digital literacy practice (i.e., shared control of a shared screen). Following the emergence of the practice, the teacher educator introduces the data-led evidence for the emergent practice in a large group video-mediated teacher education classroom, thus multiplying the practice within the larger scope of the project. The findings bring new insights into pre-service language teacher education and video-mediated interactions.
{"title":"Pre-service language teachers’ collaborative management of the shared video-mediated interactional space for pedagogical task design","authors":"Ufuk Balaman","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101394","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital literacy practices in multimodal interactional spaces, including video-mediated settings, are largely being recognized as a rich domain of research inquiry in pre-service language teacher education. This study presents findings from a telecollaborative partnership project in which small groups of pre-service language teachers collaboratively design, receive feedback for, implement, and reflect on telecollaborative tasks in and through video-mediated interactions. Using multimodal conversation analysis as the research methodology, the study describes on a micro-longitudinal basis how the collaborative design processes on an online task design tool, the DigiTask web app, create opportunities for pre-service teachers’ exploration of the technological affordances of video-mediated interaction while also interactionally managing the complex pedagogical, social interactional, and digital literacy practices in situ. More specifically, this study shows how pre-service teachers’ collaborative design-relevant actions facilitate the emergence of a digital literacy practice (i.e., shared control of a shared screen). Following the emergence of the practice, the teacher educator introduces the data-led evidence for the emergent practice in a large group video-mediated teacher education classroom, thus multiplying the practice within the larger scope of the project. The findings bring new insights into pre-service language teacher education and video-mediated interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395
Allison Briceño , Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica , Sara Rutherford-Quach , Marisa Ruiz , Kathy Stoehr , Qican Sunny Cao
As part of a U.S. Department of Education grant, we developed over 60 hours of online professional development (OPD) modules in Spanish. This mixed methods study: (1) explores Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers’ (MSBTs') shifts in language ideologies before and after completing the OPD, and (2) investigates if and how OPD resources support implementation of practices that reflect translanguaging pedagogy. Data sources include pre- and post-OPD survey results and semi-structured interviews. The two surveys were analyzed based on their scales; the interviews were analyzed iteratively using inductive and deductive codes. Survey analysis showed positive shifts in MSBTs’ beliefs and increased confidence regarding their ability to implement culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. The participants evidenced the use of knowledge and tools from the OPD to overcome filters (Bacon, 2020) to translate their language ideologies into practice.
{"title":"Translanguaging-informed beliefs and practices of Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers upon completion of an online professional development","authors":"Allison Briceño , Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica , Sara Rutherford-Quach , Marisa Ruiz , Kathy Stoehr , Qican Sunny Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As part of a U.S. Department of Education grant, we developed over 60 hours of online professional development (OPD) modules in Spanish. This mixed methods study: (1) explores Spanish-English middle school bilingual teachers’ (MSBTs') shifts in language ideologies before and after completing the OPD, and (2) investigates if and how OPD resources support implementation of practices that reflect translanguaging pedagogy. Data sources include pre- and post-OPD survey results and semi-structured interviews. The two surveys were analyzed based on their scales; the interviews were analyzed iteratively using inductive and deductive codes. Survey analysis showed positive shifts in MSBTs’ beliefs and increased confidence regarding their ability to implement culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. The participants evidenced the use of knowledge and tools from the OPD to overcome filters (Bacon, 2020) to translate their language ideologies into practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392
Min Li, Yujing Chen
Textbooks serve as the primary source of language input for L2 learners. Despite their significance, there remains a notable gap in the research concerning the authenticity of EFL/ESL textbook conversations when compared to those observed in naturalistic settings. Against this backdrop, this study examines the extent to which textbooks authentically portray conversation openings and closings. Results indicate that a substantial proportion of textbook conversations lack authentic inclusion of opening and closing sequences, with more than half of the conversations presented without openings and closings that commonly occur in real-life situations. Examination of conversation openings indicates a tendency for textbooks to feature single-component presentations. In terms of closings, textbooks exhibit a scarcity of preclosing signals, predominantly featuring components related to appreciation, arrangement, and solicitude in preclosing sequences. Conversely, sequences involving back-reference, announced closing, and moral or lesson are infrequently addressed. Additionally, a prevailing proportion of textbook conversations lack terminal exchanges.
{"title":"In the wild? Evaluating the authenticity of conversation openings and closings in EFL/ESL textbooks","authors":"Min Li, Yujing Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Textbooks serve as the primary source of language input for L2 learners. Despite their significance, there remains a notable gap in the research concerning the authenticity of EFL/ESL textbook conversations when compared to those observed in naturalistic settings. Against this backdrop, this study examines the extent to which textbooks authentically portray conversation openings and closings. Results indicate that a substantial proportion of textbook conversations lack authentic inclusion of opening and closing sequences, with more than half of the conversations presented without openings and closings that commonly occur in real-life situations. Examination of conversation openings indicates a tendency for textbooks to feature single-component presentations. In terms of closings, textbooks exhibit a scarcity of preclosing signals, predominantly featuring components related to <em>appreciation, arrangement</em>, and <em>solicitude</em> in preclosing sequences. Conversely, sequences involving <em>back-reference, announced closing</em>, and <em>moral or lesson</em> are infrequently addressed. Additionally, a prevailing proportion of textbook conversations lack terminal exchanges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393
Alexis A. López , Sultan Turkan
Assessments that require students to articulate their scientific models in English can be challenging for multilingual learners, who may lack the language proficiency to do so. In response to these increasing language demands, we have developed a digital science modeling assessment task that is adaptable to these students' linguistic and semiotic resources, enabling them to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. A pilot study involving 32 multilingual learners in the United States revealed their ability to use various linguistic resources and multiple language modes to create, describe, and explain their models. The study underscores the importance of assessments that promote translanguaging, allowing students to exhibit their science learning through various representations and catering to the diverse needs of multilingual learners. The findings of this study are likely to influence the design of digital content assessments that enable multilingual learners to utilize translanguaging to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.
{"title":"Examining how multilingual learners engaged in a digital science modeling assessment through translanguaging","authors":"Alexis A. López , Sultan Turkan","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101393","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessments that require students to articulate their scientific models in English can be challenging for multilingual learners, who may lack the language proficiency to do so. In response to these increasing language demands, we have developed a digital science modeling assessment task that is adaptable to these students' linguistic and semiotic resources, enabling them to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. A pilot study involving 32 multilingual learners in the United States revealed their ability to use various linguistic resources and multiple language modes to create, describe, and explain their models. The study underscores the importance of assessments that promote translanguaging, allowing students to exhibit their science learning through various representations and catering to the diverse needs of multilingual learners. The findings of this study are likely to influence the design of digital content assessments that enable multilingual learners to utilize translanguaging to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101393"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores Linguistic Landscape (LL) as a pedagogical approach that fosters student agency and bridges academic learning with real-world societal challenges. Through the context of a summer intensive course on Multilingualism and Diversity, jointly organised by the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia), we discuss how LL research can serve as a conduit for critical engagement with issues of language, society, and culture. The study draws on a combination of observations, student feedback, and semi-structured interviews with participants who undertook empirical LL research projects in transnational and interdisciplinary teams over four iterations of the course. By navigating the complexities of multilingual urban spaces and collaborating with peers from diverse disciplinary and linguistic backgrounds, students applied their theoretical learning to practice. This active, project-based learning approach enables them to negotiate operational and research design challenges, revealing key insights into the processes that support or hinder their development as autonomous learners. The findings highlight the potential of LL as an active learning tool that enhances critical awareness, problem-solving, and cross-cultural collaboration. The paper addresses current issues in LL scholarship by situating its pedagogical application within project-based, student-centred curricula. We conclude by outlining implications for integrating LL into higher education as a means of enhancing student agency and fostering transformative learning experiences.
{"title":"Doing multilingualism through transnational linguistic landscaping: The MultiDiv experience","authors":"Mélina Delmas , Jess Kruk , Louisa Willoughby , Jo Angouri","doi":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.linged.2025.101384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores Linguistic Landscape (LL) as a pedagogical approach that fosters student agency and bridges academic learning with real-world societal challenges. Through the context of a summer intensive course on Multilingualism and Diversity, jointly organised by the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia), we discuss how LL research can serve as a conduit for critical engagement with issues of language, society, and culture. The study draws on a combination of observations, student feedback, and semi-structured interviews with participants who undertook empirical LL research projects in transnational and interdisciplinary teams over four iterations of the course. By navigating the complexities of multilingual urban spaces and collaborating with peers from diverse disciplinary and linguistic backgrounds, students applied their theoretical learning to practice. This active, project-based learning approach enables them to negotiate operational and research design challenges, revealing key insights into the processes that support or hinder their development as autonomous learners. The findings highlight the potential of LL as an active learning tool that enhances critical awareness, problem-solving, and cross-cultural collaboration. The paper addresses current issues in LL scholarship by situating its pedagogical application within project-based, student-centred curricula. We conclude by outlining implications for integrating LL into higher education as a means of enhancing student agency and fostering transformative learning experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47468,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Education","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143099016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号