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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
The initial high expectations of applied linguistic work did not endure. Applied linguistics is divided between adopting either a modernist or a postmodernist approach. Despite their relevant critique of modernism, the relativism promoted by postmodernist perspectives is an inadequate response to the challenges of the field. A non-reductionist…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Postmodernism
Anne Feryok, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This is the first edited volume to bring together research on the interaction between language teacher identity and wellbeing. It addresses the need for further research on the experience of language teachers and the vulnerability and resilience they demonstrate in the face of threats to their wellbeing. Naming, describing and analyzing issues…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Well Being
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Büsra Müge Özdil; Naciye Kunt – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
The concomitant relationship among language, identity and power has been intimately connected to the ELT world. The bi/multilingual learner identity negotiation has been viewed as a site of struggle from a postmodernist perspective. To this end, learners' existing capital in relation to their involvement in new capital is a significant issue in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Roby Marlina – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
In this article, I offer my observations of the epistemological shifts that have taken place in the TESOL discipline as a result of the inexorable forces of globalisation. Specifically, the article highlights how the multicultural, multilingual, and multimodal nature of communication in the 21st century has disrupted various assumptions on how…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Hosseini, Mona – Language Policy, 2023
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult Dev 31:3-11, 2012), we present parental language beliefs, management, and practices in retrospect to shine a light on the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Rico-Troncoso, Carlos – HOW, 2021
Talking about culture in the field of teaching foreign languages is not a new topic, but talking about interculture and interculturality is a subject that is now gaining a lot of interest in the field of ELT. Especially in the last two decades we have witnessed the growth of publications in this regard. We find all kinds of publications, but we…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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López Vélez, Jean Carlos; Villafuerte Holguin, Jhonny Saulo – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This work aims to improve the practices of English as a foreign language of early children through the articulation of Neuroeducation and the Total Physical Response methodology. This work subscribes to the postmodern paradigm and the mixed educational research approach. The participants were thirty-five students from the second grade of primary…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Awadelkarim, Abdelmagid Abdelrahman – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Identity research, L2 learner identity included, has of late, witnessed an unprecedented surge. Changes in the concepts of 'language" "community", and the "individual" "competence", have all influenced researching identities, leading ultimately to them perceived as "complex", "multi-faceted",…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Identification (Psychology)
Gökmen, Muhammed Fatih – Online Submission, 2023
Proposed by Ivan Illich in the 1970s, the deschooling society was one of the most contentious and radical thoughts in education in terms of its critics against compulsory education around the globe and proposals in the name of networks in which everyone in need of learning and teaching can participate to learn and teach anywhere and anytime…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Britton, Emma R.; Austin, Theresa Y. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This ethnography examines how teachers interpret and enact language-in-education policies in an adult ESL classroom in the United States, where students simultaneously received job training as Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). We draw on postmodern and interpretive lenses from the ethnography of communication, considering how workforce-oriented…
Descriptors: Ethnography, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction