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Jamie L. Schissel; Huseyin Uysal – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
This editorial explores the intersection of equity and validity in language assessment, focusing on language-minoritized test-takers. Recognizing that tests often perpetuate inequitable power dynamics, our special issue, 'Equity Orientations for Validity Frameworks: Exploring the Intersections of Language and Assessment for Language-Minoritized…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Minorities, Test Validity, Power Structure
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Wenyang Sun; Nuo Xu; Verónica E. Valdez – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Drawing on a raciolinguistic and AsianCrit lens, we analyze the voices of first-generation Chinese immigrant parents regarding their decisions on whether to enroll their children in Mandarin Chinese dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs. Our findings reveal Chinese immigrant parents' lack of confidence in DLBE programs as a space…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Chinese Americans, Mandarin Chinese, Bilingual Education
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Gubitosi, Patricia; Medina González, Paola – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
The analysis of a community's linguistic landscape has proven to be an excellent tool not only in portraying, but also in evaluating and interpreting what languages are used in a single place (and what languages seem to be invisible), what the vitality of any of these languages is, and the relative influence that each linguistic variety within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, Language, Power Structure
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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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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
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Chávez-Moreno, Laura C. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This article reviews literature on U.S. bilingual education that addresses white supremacy and racism, specifically pertaining to Latinx youth and their teachers. To illustrate the wide range of the research, the author categorizes the reviewed articles into three lines of inquiry: documenting language education policies, negotiating identity, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Planning, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Students
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Loza, Sergio; Vana, Rosti – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This study discusses the dialect stylization and language ideologies involved in a nationally broadcasted radio prank show, "Carmen Calls." This national prank show permits a discussion on the language practices and hegemonic ideologies involved in the media representation of the show's Latina protagonist; "Carmen Santiago De la…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Styles, Telecommunications, Semiotics
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Pennycook, Alastair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
Critical applied linguistics remains deeply relevant today, arguably more than ever, but it needs constant renewal. This paper returns to these concerns to assess where this project has got to and where it may be headed. I review first both long-term and short-term political trends, from the rise of neoliberalism to the COVID pandemic. Next, I…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Political Influences, Neoliberalism, COVID-19
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Reagan, Timothy – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
The concept "language legitimacy", which entails issues of social class, ethnicity and culture as well as those of dominance and power, is a very important one with implications for both educational policy and practice. This article begins with a brief discussion of the two major ways in which the concept of "language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Dominance, Criticism, Civil Rights