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Diao, Wenhao – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This study reports on two students of color studying abroad in China and examines the dialectic between their interpretation of American racism and their agency to study in China and speak Chinese. There have been steady increases in the number of ethnically minoritized students among the study abroad population, but students of color typically…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Chinese
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Jamie L. Schissel – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Drawing from humanizing pedagogies (Bartolome, 1994; del Carmen Salazar; Freire & Ramos, 1993) and humanizing research (Paris & Winn, 2013), in this article I propose an approach to "humanizing assessment" that begins with the position that inclusive and equitable educational opportunities and assessment practices that meet the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Decolonization, Humanism, Evaluation Methods
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Vasilopoulos, Gene; Romero, Gloria; Farzi, Reza; Shekarian, Mariana; Fleming, Douglas – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
This study examines the practicality and relevance of positive peace (Galtung, 1964) in English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher training. It focuses on a collaborative three-month study abroad program, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, for EFL teachers from rural communities in western China to participate in an intensive professional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Study Abroad, Power Structure
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Yamada, Mieko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2013
This article investigates how Japanese university students perceive Japan's domestic diversity and understand the role of English within that context. Surveys and interviews with Japanese students reveal how they reflect on their own experiences with diversity in their past English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes and also help to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Surveys
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
This article uncovers some problems involved in culling and translating non-western texts--written in other languages, at particular times, for specific audiences, and rooted in particular local milieus--before assembling them into academic arguments in English in the west. Based on my longterm, evolving endeavour regarding English- and…
Descriptors: Audiences, Foreign Countries, Translation, Second Languages
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
Based on a long-term, evolving exploration regarding English language teaching and learning in English-and vernacular-medium settings in Gujarat, India, this paper offers a discussion of two key points: 1) the degree to which English is vernacularized in multilingual postcolonial contexts, and 2) ways in which vernacular pedagogic practices are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Stakhnevich, Julia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
This article reports on a diary study conducted to explore third language acquisition in the immersion setting in Mexico as experienced by a bilingual Russian/English learner of Spanish who had recently immigrated to the USA from Russia. Language learning is approached as a socialization process that involves negotiation of meaning (Vygotsky,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Metalinguistics, Diaries, Foreign Countries
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Martinez, Glenn A.; Petrucci, Peter R. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2004
The present study measures linguistic insecurity among college level heritage language (HL) learners along the Texas-Mexico border. We measured students' self-reported confidence in speaking and writing in English and in Spanish and analyzed students' perception of instruction in both languages. We argue that high levels of linguistic insecurity…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism