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Mark Waltermire; Daniel J. Villa – Hispania, 2025
The Spanish spoken in the U.S. contains certain elements from English due to the sustained sociocultural contact between these two languages. Unfortunately, it is for this very reason that many monolingual Spanish speakers (and even some bilinguals) denigrate bilingual varieties of U.S. Spanish, which they see as impure (Mata 2023; Rangel et al.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Sociocultural Patterns
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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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Céline Buchs – Intercultural Education, 2025
The study (N = 92) piloted an inclusive programme taking advantage of linguistic diversity in regular primary classrooms in Geneva (Switzerland) to reinforce classroom social climate. The same three-stages programme (activities for opening to others, activities for opening to linguistic diversity, and multilingual cooperative activities) was…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Group Activities, Cooperative Learning, Class Activities