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Pennycook, Alastair – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2017
This paper asks what translanguaging could start to look like if it incorporated an expanded version of language and questioned not only to the borders between languages but also the borders between semiotic modes. Developing the idea of spatial repertoires and assemblages, and looking at data from a Bangladeshi-owned corner shop, this paper…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Code Switching (Language), Retailing, Foreign Countries
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Windle, Joel; Nogueira, Maria Alice – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This paper analyses tendencies that distinguish the internationalisation of education for two class fractions--owners of medium to large businesses and highly qualified university professors and researchers. We identify the importance of cosmopolitan cultural capital, particularly fluency in English, in strengthening the position of both groups…
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Capital, Business, Ownership
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Azimova, Nigora; Johnston, Bill – Modern Language Journal, 2012
Using the 2 theoretical lenses of representation (Barthes, 1977) and ownership of language (Higgins, 2003), this article offers a critical analysis of representations of Russian speakers in 9 widely used Russian language textbooks aimed at university-level learners. Particular attention is paid to representations of Russian speakers other than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Ownership, French
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Moore, Stephen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
During the past 20 years, English language teaching and learning has grown phenomenally in Cambodia as the country has opened up to the outside world following more than two decades of civil war. As a result, the standard of English spoken today in Cambodia has also risen dramatically. One feature of this context of dynamic change has been the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, War, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Garcia-Villada, Eduardo – Hispania, 2011
This study investigates children's attitudes and technology use for learning Spanish, and examines the type of technology-enhanced learning activities they enjoy. A survey with two versions was developed to gather attitudes and opinions of 2,220 children in grades K-2 and 3-8 in eight small rural school districts in the Midwest of the United…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Ownership, Access to Computers, Computers
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O'Rourke, Bernadette – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to examine how struggles over language ownership are played out in a minority language setting, focusing on the case of Irish in the Republic of Ireland. The article examines the more or less serious struggles that emerge between so-called native, or L1, and nonnative, or L2, speakers of Irish in a language learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Ownership, Language Role, Ideology