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Yaeko Hori; Yumi Sugihara; Li Wei – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In a world with existential issues, inequalities/injustice are (re)emerging in varying degrees around the globe, and yet, each of us strives to sustain our life with our own disappointments/griefs and desires/hopes. Then, identity formation research should elucidate how a human being makes sense of multifaceted voices/dimensions ('selves' and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
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Ebtissam Oraby; Mahmoud Azaz – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Using the tenets of translanguaging and with a focus on Arabic as a diglossic language, we examine the fluid and dynamic practices that transcend the boundaries between/among Standard Arabic, Arabic dialects, and English in content-based instruction in an advanced Arabic literature course. Using conversation analysis, we show how translingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Arabic, Dialects, English
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Lee, Carmen – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper probes alternative meanings and processes for decolonizing English that arise from the particular geopolitical histories and identities of Hong Kong and engagement with political and translingual activism. I illustrate the positioning and tension between English, 'Kongish' (a mix of English and localized linguistic resources in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Chinese, Decolonization
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Kevin W H Tai – Applied Linguistics, 2024
A growing number of studies have explored the ways how teachers contingently respond to students' unexpected responses or a lack of student responses in second language classrooms. From a sociocultural perspective, teacher contingency involves a departure from the lesson plan in local response to the unexpected or unforeseeable actions in the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Classroom Communication
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Windle, Joel; Amorim Possas, Luciana – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Translanguaging has gained prominence as a pedagogical orientation that promises to promote the rights of minoritized migrant students by valuing pre-existing multilingualisms and identities. However, the effects of classroom translanguaging on teacher and student outlooks and relations of inequality are far from universal. In this paper we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Canagarajah, Suresh – Applied Linguistics, 2018
The expanding orientations to translingualism are motivated by a gradual shift from the structuralist paradigm that has been treated as foundational in modern linguistics. Structuralism encouraged scholars to consider language, like other social constructs, as organized as a self-defining and closed structure, set apart from spatiotemporal…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Multilingualism, Bilingualism
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Zhu, Hua; Li, Wei; Jankowicz-Pytel, Daria – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article explores language learning as a process of translanguaging and of cultural translation. We draw examples from a sociolinguistic ethnography of translanguaging practices in a karate club in east London, UK. Formulaic Japanese is taught as part of karate techniques, practised as the language of performance and rituals and valued as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Clubs, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Scollon, Ron; Bhatia, Vijay; Li, David; Yung, Vicki – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Five ethnographic studies located genres of public discourse most central to university students, thus enhancing understanding of those genres as a significant influence on students' use of language. The problem of divergence between school-based genres and genres of public discourse were addressed. Results highlighted are audience roles, sites of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Students, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
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Poulisse, Nanda; Bongaerts, Theo – Applied Linguistics, 1994
In a study of bilingual speech production, data were collected from 771 unintentional language switches by 45 Dutch learners of English at 3 different proficiency levels. One finding was that the occurrence of language switch was related to learner proficiency in English. (Contains 40 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Dutch