This study adopts Goffman's Frame Analysis theory to examine the discursive identity construction of Chinese Hui Muslims. Excerpts from a conversation within a Chinese Muslim family were qualitatively analyzed, and two examples were presented to represent the ways that the participants use linguistic and discursive resources to construct a unique…

Because only 3% of students from U.S. historically-black colleges/universities (HBCUs) study abroad (Redden, 2018), educators at HBCUs must design pedagogies that develop global skills for students for whom international travel is unfeasible. Films momentarily immerse students in new cultures, which was the goal within one public, Midwestern HBCU…

This study examines the identity negotiation of Muslim female international students in ESL classrooms in the mid-southern United States, where linguistic adaptation and cultural integration pressures intersect. Drawing on intersectionality, postcolonial feminism, and Kim's International Student Identity Model, this research highlights how these…

This study inquires how students of Arab heritage in an urban setting in Denmark interpret Islamic literacy artefacts available in their homes, and how these interpretations reflect broader faith literacy practices in the students' diaspora community. Through a linguistic ethnographic study design students have been invited to photograph literacy…

In Myanmar, large diverse indigenous ethnicities exist, and, as a result, public schools consist of a multicultural and multilingual student population. Despite this, the education system proffers and embeds Myanmar's dominant ideologies relating to culture, language and religion within all aspects of schooling. Students from minority backgrounds…