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Wonguk Cho – Critical Education, 2023
Critical Pedagogy (CP) has been carried out in many contexts, and reports of its success in language teaching in various countries have increasingly appeared (Bennet 2018; West 2014). However, South Korea (henceforth Korea) is not well-known for critical inquiry in language education, especially in private language institutions, so-called hagwon.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialogs (Language), Critical Thinking, Second Language Learning
Smith, Christopher A. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
To maximize the advantages of virtual learning, the present study highlights the potential for Internet meme design and creation in English language learning (ELL) courses as an innovative activity that raises student agency, increases multimodal literacy, inculcates intercultural communication, and teaches idiomatic expression. Memes resonate a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Power Structure
Canagarajah, Suresh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
Sociolinguists have recently employed the notion of spatiotemporal scales to explain the changing social status of linguistic codes across social and geopolitical domains. Scales enable us to address the portability of semiotic resources in migration with great insight. In addition, unlike romanticized orientations to globalization and…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Intercultural Communication, Global Approach, Sociolinguistics
O'Sullivan, Helen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
This paper forms part of a wider research project which examines how the Kantian concept of "Mundigkeit" or "maturity" may be represented in subjective accounts of language learning, known as "language learner narratives". It is shown that the metaphors used in these texts frequently do not so much represent congenial relations of hospitality…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Personal Narratives, Figurative Language
Huddleston, Andrew P. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
In this article, the author demonstrates how a Bourdieusian analysis of poetic transcriptions offers great potential for helping teachers and students to understand how they are responding to state policy mandates in schools. Specifically, the author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze two poetic transcriptions,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Exit Examinations, Immigrants, Testing
McNamara, Tim – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Discussions of multilingualism in education, as exemplified by the articles in this issue, can be critically reevaluated using perspectives available from poststructuralism. These perspectives focus on the potential ambiguity of language and language practices. This, in turn, encourages us to question simple notions of the relationship of learners…
Descriptors: Criticism, Figurative Language, Language Tests, Multilingualism