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Direct linkMiller, 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
Flowerdew, John; Miller, Lindsay – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2008
This paper examines the issue of social structure and individual agency in language learning through the life histories of three young engineering graduates in Hong Kong. English is identified as an important form of cultural capital, which to a considerable extent determines the development of the three individuals, each of whom comes from a…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Second Language Learning, Social Structure, Foreign Countries
