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Orienting to "Being Ordinary": The (Re)Construction of Hegemonic Ideologies in Interactions among Adult Immigrant Learners of English
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Miller, Elizabeth R. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2009
This article investigates the construction and maintenance of ideologies regarding the legitimacy of English as the dominant language in the United States in interactions involving adult immigrant learners of English. As both the researcher and these students' English as second language (ESL) instructor, I am a participant in the ESL classroom and…
Descriptors: Language Role, Ideology, Native Speakers, Immigrants
Learning, Unlearning, and the Teaching of Writing: Educational Turns in Postcoloniality
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Tolman, Janice – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
Seeking renewed articulation of praxis in cross-linguistic on texts, I turn to postcolonality, social theory, and feminism to illuminate and critique common practices with language--learning, teaching, and writing. Additionally drawing on my experience teaching immigrant youth and adults in the US, I reiterate and attempt to answer Gayatri…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Social Theories, Feminism, Criticism