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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
Hui Huang; Candy Wang; Jianwei Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The identity of first-generation immigrant groups is a highly complex construct, evolving and changing in response to a host of social, psychological, and contextual factors. This paper explores how first-generation Chinese immigrants from mainland China position and negotiate themself in relation to the perceived sociocultural groups they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Identification (Psychology)
Min Jung Jee; Mi Yung Park; Sang Yee Cheon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated heritage language (HL) maintenance and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii), an understudied population in the field. It focused on patterns of language use and factors (i.e. age at immigration (AI), self-rated language proficiency, and frequency of…
Descriptors: Korean, Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Maintenance
God'sgift Ogban Uwen; Bassey A. Ekpenyong – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The paper examines the use of esprit de corps as an intragroup identity construction device that indexes contextual conceptualisations among the (para)military discourse community in Nigeria. Data were generated through participant observation and audio tape recordings of randomly selected personnel of the target agencies at designated checkpoints…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, Language Usage, Sense of Community
Ying Wu; Rita Elaine Silver – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study investigates the subjectivities of tertiary students in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) of the People's Republic of China. Specifically, we investigate self-reported language practices and attitudes in relation to identities in a language ecology with three prominent languages (Zhuang, Standard Chinese [Putonghua], and…
Descriptors: College Students, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
Dieuwerke Rutgers; Michael Evans; Linda Fisher; Karen Forbes; Angela Gayton; Yongcan Liu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Multilingualism is highly prevalent in schools around the world. Yet, the relationship between multilingualism and academic attainment is not well understood. Where research on this topic exists, it has predominantly focused on how home language background impacts on academic success, lacking in a broader view of multilingualism which extends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Multilingualism
Rajendran, Charlene – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article considers the value of growing up stories among theatre practitioners in Singapore as a resource for learning theatre in multicultural contexts. It engages with the lived experiences of five Singapore theatre practitioners, Alfian Sa'at, Alvin Tan, Haresh Sharma, Kok Heng Leun and Ong Keng Sen, whose contributions to discourses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Drama, Cultural Pluralism
Cohen, Etan; Hod, Yotam; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Background: The sociocultural turn redefined learning in terms of shifting identities. In recent years, learning scientists have explored the connections between learning and various types of identities, including disciplinary identity, gender, race, and more. In this article we focus on national identity, to understand how it is constructed and…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Grade 9, Jews, Self Concept
Yuwei Liang; Qi Chen; Ying Li – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Adopting the notions of "identity," "investment" and "translocal scale," this study explores how international students negotiate language choices with multilingual others and construct new sociolinguistic spaces. Interview data with 12 international students at a Chinese university revealed tensions between language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, English, Multilingualism
Hanna Ulunova; Luibov Spivak; Olena Starynska – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study addressed the language in professional communication and national identity of civil servants-bilinguals in the Ukrainian border oblasts with Russia. It was empirically determined that the civil servants mainly use the Ukrainian language in professional communication with the users of civil services, but with colleagues, the Russian…
Descriptors: Government Employees, Native Language, Ukrainian, Bilingualism
Chengyuan Yu – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: While higher education has been encouraging interdisciplinary research, few studies have been conducted to understand how interdisciplinarity shapes the identity construction of scholars, especially doctoral students who may already strive to socialize into academia. Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, this study adopts the approach…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Students, Self Concept, Foreign Students
Ruifeng Mo; Huimin Liu; Hao-Zhang Xiao – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
From an ecolinguistic perspective, this paper investigates the connection between multilingual environments and Cantonese English identity in the Greater Bay Area through questionnaires and interviews. The findings reveal the following: (1) Affective and behavioural indicators of self-identity varied significantly among different majors, as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Sino Tibetan Languages, Self Concept
Alone Together: Experiences of Palestinian East Jerusalem Students Studying at an Israeli University
Rawan Asali Nuseibeh; Aviv Cohen; Zvi Bekerman – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
In this study, we aimed to better understand the experiences of ethnic minorities within institutions of higher education, especially in areas of conflict. We focused on the case of Palestinian students from East Jerusalem who study in one of Israel's major universities. We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes
Hassanpour, Ali; Azizi, Nematollah; Ahmadi, Abbas; Gholizadeh, Isa; Ramezani, Seyedeh Golafrooz – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: Considering the role that students' diverse identifications play in education, this paper aims to contribute to the developing discourse on multicultural education concerning the status of ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity in Iranian upstream educational documents (UEDs). Design/methodology/approach: This paper explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Religion, Language Usage
Buchweitz, Nurit; Mar'i, Abed Al-Rahman – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
This study examines East Jerusalem teachers' perceptions of and attitudes toward acquiring and communicating in Hebrew as a second language. The context of the study is a complex education system dominated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. East Jerusalem's education system is divided between schools supervised by Israel's Ministry of Education…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Teachers