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George C. Bunch; Benjamin M. James; Nora W. Lang – TESOL Journal, 2025
The distinction between "academic language" and its putative "conversational" or "everyday" counterpart continues to be used by some researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners to explain challenges faced by linguistically minoritized students in primary and secondary schools, in the United States and elsewhere.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Masters Programs, Academic Language, Secondary School Teachers
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Dewey, Martin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This viewpoint article provides a critical reflection on the gatekeeping and academic language practices of Anglophone universities, evaluating these in light of the promotional claims universities make about internationalization and global reach. I then consider the arguments put forward in each of the main articles in this special issue from…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning