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Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
Sam Goodchild; Miriam Weidl – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In our article, we investigate the complex dynamics of linguistic understandings and mis- or non-understanding within multilingual contexts. Through the lens of sociolinguistic exploration, we navigate the multifaceted landscapes of language use, applying a multi-perspective approach and the triangulation method to explore the depths of linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Researchers
Ashley R. Moore – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Linguistic distancing behaviours indicative of linguistic dissociation (Moore, 2023) have been documented in social scientific and literary accounts focusing on the lives of Japanese-English late plurilinguals (LPs; e.g. Harrison, 2011; Kelsky, 2001; McMahill, 2001; Mori, 1997; Takahashi, 2013). Across these cases, diverse Japanese-English LPs…
Descriptors: Language Role, Japanese, Language Research, Bilingualism
Garbiñe Bereziartua; Maria del Mar Boillos; Nahia Idoiaga – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
English has become the main lingua franca for scientific dissemination. Its hegemony contrasts with the scarce presence of minority languages such as Basque in academic publications. Its presence, in addition to having a short trajectory, has not yet been studied. This paper aims to identify the reasons for publishing or not publishing in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Languages, Language Dominance, Language Usage
Wei Zhou; Lay Hoon Ang – SAGE Open, 2024
Malaysia is a multilingual and multiethnic country with a substantial population of ethnic Chinese, who use standardized languages such as Malay, English, and Mandarin, as well as various Chinese dialects in their daily lives within and beyond Chinese communities. Cantonese is a community language that significantly impacts the lives of local…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Sino Tibetan Languages, Foreign Countries
Sixuan Wang; Yongyan Zheng – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Drawing on the perspective of decolonizing methodology, this paper problematises the conventional interview technique of avoiding yes-or-no questions introduced by handbooks of research methods in applied linguistics. By demonstrating how this interview technique was found unsuitable in the first author's ethnographic study of multilingualism with…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Language Research, Decolonization, Research Methodology
Marcelyn Oostendorp; Tanya Little; Robyn Berghoff – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The interaction between multilingualism and emotions has so far mostly been researched in Northern contexts. The findings obtained suggest that the first language is typically preferred for emotional and mental activities (i.e. 'first language primacy'). In this article, we extend this area of investigation to Africa. We use the Bilingualism and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Simon L. Peters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Increasingly, speakers of minoritized languages around the world are becoming uprooted due to economic pressures, political forces, and environmental destabilization. As communities leave their traditional homelands, they often experience accelerated language shift. Although youth are in a critical position to further transmit their languages to…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Language Maintenance, Immigrants
Anu Pandey – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Podcasts are a unique media that have been used in Indigenous and endangered language communities in the form of Indigenous radio podcasts, instructional websites, or tools to aid classroom instruction. A podcast called Rituals of Kanauji speakers was created in Kanauji, a low-resource Indian language variety. Using this case study in Kanauji, I…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Audio Equipment, Computer Software, Second Language Learning
Judith Reynolds; Prue Holmes – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This paper gives an account of the impact of spaces of linguistic non-understanding and spaces of linguistic partial understanding in the first author's linguistic ethnographic doctoral study of lawyer-client communication within UK immigration legal advice meetings. The paper uses the researching multilingually framework as a lens for exploring…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Lawyers, Interpersonal Communication, Multilingualism
Eylem Oruç – European Journal of Education, 2025
The current study is a systematic literature review of the studies on language mindsets. It endeavours to address the growing interest in language mindsets research and practice and, to review the evidence on the aspects of language mindsets, research approach, participants, data collection, data analysis and results in a systematic review. The…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Language Attitudes, Research Reports, Language Research
Laila Mobarak Alhazmi – SAGE Open, 2024
This study is the first to explore language attitudes of the endangered Faifi language in SA. Understanding these attitudes is crucial for future language revitalization efforts. Employing a conceptual framework from LA research, data were collected via an online Arabic questionnaire with a sample of 258 participants. This paper aims to explore…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Arabic, Language Usage
Reza Khany; Mohsen Beigi – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study aimed to explore the linguistic factors that influence the development and diversification of World Englishes along with implications for language teaching, learning, and policy, and to examine the trends in research related to WEs. Using a systematic review process with MAXQDA 20.2.1, the findings indicate that research on World…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Context
Anas Hajar; Mehmet Karakus – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
As of 2024, nearly three decades have passed since Bonny Norton introduced the investment model. This bibliometric review analyses research on this model using metadata from 424 publications indexed in the Web of Science database. Employing bibliometric techniques, the study identifies and visually presents significant sources, countries,…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Databases, Applied Linguistics, Metadata
Anna Bax; Mary Bucholtz; Eric W. Campbell; Alexia Z. Fawcett; Inî G. Mendoza; Simon L. Peters; Griselda Reyes Basurto – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Indigenous communities working to reclaim their languages have called for a shift from the traditional research paradigm of language documentation and description, in which outsider scholars set the agenda, to one in which community language workers take on leadership roles at every stage of the process, possibly with secondary support from…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Mexicans, Spanish, English