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Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
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Peiyu Wang; Liying Cheng – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This study employed a multi-methods design to investigate the impact of preparation on Chinese test-takers' perceptions of the integrated TOEFL iBT speaking and writing design. Combining results from over 1700 surveys and 10 interviews, it was found that these Chinese test-takers, who are the most vulnerable group in the multimillion testing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Belinda Daniels; Tammy Ratt; Andrea Custer; Andrea Sterzuk; Melanie Griffith Brice; Russell Fayant – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This paper contributes to ongoing conversations on the contextual differences and considerations between learning an Indigenous language as a member of an Indigenous nation or community and learning an Indigenous language as a non-Indigenous person (Albury, 2015; Berardi-Wiltshire & Bortolotto, 2022; May 2023; O'Toole, 2020; Te Huia, 2020).…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jamie L. Schissel – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Drawing from humanizing pedagogies (Bartolome, 1994; del Carmen Salazar; Freire & Ramos, 1993) and humanizing research (Paris & Winn, 2013), in this article I propose an approach to "humanizing assessment" that begins with the position that inclusive and equitable educational opportunities and assessment practices that meet the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Decolonization, Humanism, Evaluation Methods