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Weekly, Robert – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
The author reports on a qualitative investigation of the language attitudes of multilingual British South Asian English language teachers. Data are drawn from both interviews and focus groups to demonstrate the participants underlying conception of language and their awareness and attitudes toward Indian English and how they coalesce their…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Asians, Indians
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Lee, Jerry Won – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
In response to the limitations of the nation-state as a conceptual frame for the study of linguistic landscapes (LL), this article argues for a transnational approach that accounts for the material reconfigurations and symbolic reimaginations of space in the context of global flows and migrations (Appadurai, 1996). This approach enables one to…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Multilingualism, Neighborhoods
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu; Juby-Smith, Bonita; Desbiens, Isabelle – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
bell hooks's (1994) advocacy for teaching to transgress invites educators and students alike to transgress boundaries to strive for ways to know and live fully and deeply as whole human beings. The authors aim to showcase a transgressive attempt in bringing French and English into one multiage (Grades 4-6) classroom, with its two teachers--English…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Critical Literacy, English, Language Arts
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Miri, Mowla; Alibakhshi, Goudarz; Mostafaei-Alaei, Mahnaz – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors report on a study aimed at exploring the role of a teacher education program (TEP) rested upon the tenets of critical pedagogy in influencing teachers' cognitions and practices concerning first-language (L1) use in second-language (L2) classrooms. Participants were 10 Iranian English as a foreign language teachers, whose cognitions…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Negative Attitudes
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Pandey, Anita – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
This paper examines the step show or code-switching involving two dialects of English, Standard American English (SAE) and Black English Vernacular (BEV) at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The data point to a reversal of dominant institutional language and literacy practices at the university under focus. The conscious and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Colleges, North American English, Code Switching (Language)