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Taucia González; Alfredo J. Artiles; Patricia Martínez-Álvarez; Sarah M. Salinas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
Though "Lau v. Nichols (Lau)" has garnered substantial educational gains for multilingual learners (MLs), we address two limitations. Namely, there is a need to historicize the interlocking language, ability, and racial differences and to examine MLs through an intersectional lens. We delineate the historical entanglements of language,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Equal Education, English Learners, Multilingualism
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Danielle Marie Greene – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
This study investigates the role of African American Language (AAL) and *Standardized American English (*SAE) in Black/African American same-race teacher-student relationships. The teachers in this study (1) used AAL as a valuable tool for building rapport and trust with their students; (2) were aware of their positions as linguistic role models;…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, English, African American Culture
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Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi – Language Policy, 2023
In this paper, I put forward and apply a phenomenological understanding of body and embodied experience to examine refugee families' identity (trans)formation and language ideologies and practices. In particular, Kitaro Nishida's (1870-1945) notion of historical body was adopted to investigate how Afghan refugee families' lived experiences of…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Refugees, Self Concept, Cultural Background
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Harris, Samantha; Lee, Jin Sook – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study examines the experiences of mixed-race Korean Americans in their journey to develop and use their heritage language, Korean, through in-depth autobiographical interviews. Participants highlighted the role of 'Korean-speaking spaces' such as Korean churches or grocery stores, where the expectation is to speak Korean, as important sites…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Korean Americans, Multiracial Persons, Second Language Learning
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Abdelhay, Ashraf; Eljak, Nada; Mugaddam, AbdelRahim; Makoni, Sinfree – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The sociolinguistic repertoires of individuals in Sudan are products of institutionalised orders of normalisation. The visibility of language in popular and official discourses in Sudan is always linked with wider cultural and political projects. This paper intends to engage with and explicate this observation by, first, examining how the dominant…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Language Usage, African Languages, Semitic Languages
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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
Urciuoli, Bonnie – 1996
This book is about language prejudice as experienced by Puerto Ricans in the mainland United States. Prejudice is expressed as social signs that include, but go well beyond, language. When people express linguistic prejudices, they generally start by objectifying the languages in question as though the languages were sharply defined. For Puerto…
Descriptors: Bias, Cultural Differences, English, Hispanic Americans