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Amin Zaini; Hossein Shokouhi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This paper investigates readers' recognition of unsourced evidentials in texts in association with critical reading. To this end, we involved four Iranian postgraduate students at an Australian university in a collective case study where each student read four Persian texts and participated in in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Critical Reading
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Simmons, Amber M. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
While important work has been done on assessing classroom texts and investigating classroom discourse, there is little research on teachers doing systemic functional linguistics (SFL) with students for critical ends, especially in the high school arena. This article discusses how instructional use of SFL analytic resources in subject English…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, High School Students, English Instruction, Linguistics
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Toh, Glenn – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The author seeks to uncover the interested and ideological nature of journal peer reviewing in relation to four manuscripts submitted to English language teaching and applied linguistics publications. The four manuscripts in question set out to problematize existing beliefs and inequitable practices in English language teaching by way of…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Peer Evaluation, Faculty Publishing, Applied Linguistics
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Esquivel, Johanna – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This case study focuses on the diverse discourses Latinx bilingual students bring to class to make sense of power relations in the world. The study implements critical literacy practices such as read-alouds, discussions, writing, and drawing activities that help students critique and disrupt power discourses embedded in texts and visuals. With the…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Discourse Analysis, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Alford, Jennifer; Kettle, Margaret – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
Recent conservative reviews of Australia's national English curriculum argue for a return to less critical approaches to English language education and a stronger emphasis on traditional, functional approaches to provide adequate English learning experiences for school-age students. This neoliberal shift poses a threat to adolescent learners from…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, National Curriculum, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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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