刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语言与教育》2023年第1-3期

Language and Education

Volume 37, Issue 1-3 

Language and Education（SSCI一区，2021 IF: 2.432）2023年第1-3期共刊文27篇。其中，2023年第1期共发文9篇，其中研究性论文7篇，书评2篇。研究论文涉及新生语言发展、词汇附带学习、双语发展、写作选择、多元识字教学法等。2023年第2期共发文9篇，其中研究性论文7篇，书评2篇。研究论文涉及语言培训项目、印第安纳州双语课堂中的英语语言艺术教学、黑人在线英语教师的歧视经历师生对话、难民教育中的语言考虑等。2023年第3期共发文9篇，其中研究性论文7篇，书评2篇。研究论文涉及学术语言能力、语言接触、学术英语社会化、传承语身份发展等。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

Issue 1

ARTICLES

■ Expanding participation: supporting newcomer students’ language development through disciplinary practices, by Laura Alvarez, Marguerite De Loney, Sarah Capitelli, Guadalupe Valdés & Paulina Julia Biernacki, Pages: 1-21.

■Multilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a Functional Multilingual Learning approach, by Nell Foster, Nathalie Auger & Piet Van Avermaet, Pages: 22-38.

■Extensive viewing of children’s entertainment and the potential for incidental learning of early years reading vocabulary: a corpus study, by Clarence Green, Pages: 39-53.

■Growing up bilingual: language proficiency, social identities and competences of complementary school-attendees and non-attendees in the UK, by Layal Husain & Virginia Lam, Pages: 54-70.

■The value of knowing: conscious and unconscious writing choices, by Susan Jones, Pages: 71-87.

■Beyond market and language commodification: Contemplating social-market value and social-welfare concerns in language education policy and practice in Pakistan, by Syed Abdul Manan, Sham Haidar & Rooh UI Amin, Pages: 88-104.

■Constructing the pedagogy of multiliteracies. The role of focalisation in the development of critical analysis of multimodal narratives, by Íris Susana Pires Pereira & Ângela Campos, Pages: 105-122.

BOOK REVIEW

■ Making language visible in the university: English for academic purposes and internationalization, by Jiaoyue Chen & Delin Kong, Pages: 123-126.

■Foreign language proficiency in higher education, by Amy L. Clay, Pages: 127-130.

Issue 2

ARTICLES

■Impact of language-training programs on French educators’ interactions and child syntax development, by Emmanuelle Canut, Caroline Masson & Magali Husianycia, Pages: 131-150.

■Improving English language arts instruction in Indiana dual language bilingual education classrooms, by Woongsik Choi, Wan Hee Kim, Wayne E. Wright & Trish Morita-Mullaney, Pages: 151-170.

■Discrimination in the gig economy: the experiences of Black online English teachers, by Nathaniel Ming Curran, Pages: 171-185.

■An analysis of the forms of teacher-student dialogue that are most productive for learning, by Sara Hennessy, Elisa Calcagni, Alvin Leung & Neil Mercer, Pages: 186-211.

■Supportive primary teacher beliefs towards multilingualism through teacher training and professional practice, by Sanna Pohlmann-Rother, Sarah Désirée Lange, Laura Zapfe & Daniel Then, Pages: 212-228.

■Variables influencing ESL teacher candidates’ language ideologies, by Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs, Pages: 229-243.

■Language considerations in refugee education: languages for opportunity, connection, and roots, by Celia Reddick & Vidur Chopra, Pages: 244-261.

BOOK REVIEW

■Language ideology and order in rising China, by Lin Chen & Danping Wang, Pages: 262-265.

■Children reading for pleasure in the digital age: mapping reader engagement, by Sujia Gan, Pages: 266-269.

Issue 3ARTICLES■Re-envisaging English medium instruction, intercultural citizenship development, and higher education in the context of studying abroad, by Yusop Boonsuk & Fan Fang, Pages: 271-287.■A portrait of academic literacy in mid-adolescence: a computational longitudinal account of cognitive academic language proficiency during secondary school, by Adrián Granados, Antonio Lorenzo-Espejo & Francisco Lorenzo, Pages: 288-307.■Teaching higher-order thinking skills to multilingual students in elementary classrooms, by Deon Victoria Heffington & Maria R. Coady, Pages: 308-327.■Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement, by Ingrid Piller, Ana Sofia Bruzon & Hanna Torsh, Pages: 328-345.■Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages, by Carly Steele & Gillian Wigglesworth, Pages: 346-363.■Agency and feedback-seeking: academic English socialization of L2 students in Hong Kong, by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung, Pages: 364-382.■Theorising the dynamics of heritage language identity development: a narrative inquiry of the life histories of three Chinese heritage speakers, by Yue Zhou & Yongcan Liu, Pages: 383-400.BOOK REVIEW■The art and architecture of academic writing, by Jiao Li & Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Pages: 401-404.■Bloomsbury World Englishes volume 2: ideologies, by Evangeline Lin, Pages: 405-407.

第1期摘要

Expanding participation: supporting newcomer students’ language development through disciplinary practices

Laura Alvarez, Teacher Education Department, Kalmanovitz School of Education, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA, USA

Marguerite De Loney, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Sarah Capitelli, Teacher Education Department, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Guadalupe Valdés, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Paulina Julia Biernacki, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Abstract In teaching newcomer students, educators must envision how to provide opportunities for language use and development through age-appropriate content instruction. This article describes a design research study, in which we developed and piloted 5th grade science units and studied the participation of two newcomer students in sense-making interactions with peers. By analyzing their participation over a school year, we provide a vision of newcomers’ language development that is integrated with, rather than a prerequisite for, disciplinary work. Newcomers’ language development involved expanding the interactional moves they used to participate in scientific sense-making, including moves that might be considered purely ‘social’, but were essential to collaboratively enacting disciplinary practices. In addition, their positioning in small group interactions impacted affordances for participation and language use. Over time, students shifted their positioning, which coincided with improved participation and collaborative sense-making for newcomers and their peers. We offer implications for how teachers can create integrated classrooms that support newcomers’ language development and disciplinary learning.

Key words Newcomers, emergent bilinguals, English learners, second language acquisition, science, disciplinary practices

Multilingual tasks as a springboard for transversal practice: teachers’ decisions and dilemmas in a Functional Multilingual Learning approach

Nell Foster, Centre for Diversity and Learning, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Nathalie Auger, L’Humain, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

Piet Van Avermaet, Centre for Diversity and Learning, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Abstract Functional Multilingual Learning (FML) aims to leverage pupils’ full language repertoire in a strategic and transversal way across the curriculum in order to enhance access to conceptual understanding and improve skills in the language of schooling. This linguistic-ethnographic study explores the pedagogical decisions of four teachers in a French–speaking primary school in Brussels, Belgium as they create ‘meaningful multilingual tasks’ for their linguistically diverse classrooms. Findings indicate that tasks serving symbolic and linguistic functions were the easiest for teachers to conceptualise, and that class-level learning objectives often took precedence over individual objectives. Multilingual scaffolding only occurred in classrooms already functioning extensively within a socio-constructivist paradigm and needed to be supported by a free classroom language policy to be the most effective. Whole-class tasks generated a new sense of linguistic capital but entailed a reframing of the notion of inclusion as they sometimes generated feelings of linguistic insecurity or resulted in limited participation.

Key words Functional Multilingual Learning, plurilingualism, language awareness, teachers, innovative pedagogy, Belgium

Extensive viewing of children’s entertainment and the potential for incidental learning of early years reading vocabulary: a corpus study

Clarence Green, School of Education, Federation University Australia, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract This study evaluates the potential for incidentally learning early reading vocabulary through the extensive viewing (EV) of children’s movies/television with subtitles. Recent research has investigated how much exposure to important vocabulary EV and extensive reading (ER) provides. Investigations compute the number of repetitions of target vocabulary in corpora designed to represent EV/ER. Curriculum time estimates are then computed based on the time needed to reach vocabulary repetition thresholds linked to incidental learning. This study focuses on an understudied area of EV, namely children’s transition to literacy. It investigates whether early reading vocabulary is available in children’s movies/television, a form of compelling, comprehensible input. Recent research has found vocabulary acquisition gains from EV are enhanced by subtitles. Therefore, this study analyses 743 subtitles from children’s movies (4.8 million words) and 3174 subtitles from children’s series (6.4 million words). Using two recent wordlists representing early reading vocabulary, vocabulary frequency and approximate curriculum time estimates are computed for three thresholds linked to incidental vocabulary acquisition, i.e. 6, 12 and 20 encounters. Results indicate that EV with subtitles could support the development of an oral language vocabulary that contains a pool of words needed for early reading, and provide print exposure to this essential vocabulary.

Key words Extensive viewing, extensive reading, vocabulary, transition to literacy, incidental vocabulary learning, oral language

Growing up bilingual: language proficiency, social identities and competences of complementary school-attendees and non-attendees in the UK

Layal Husain, School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK

Virginia Lam, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK

Abstract The UK is linguistically rich but faces a reducing uptake of language learning in schools, as pupils feel more withdrawn and disinterested in learning an additional language to English. A key component in many linguistic minority communities to preserve their language is complementary schooling (CS), which has wide-ranging educational and societal implications. This study compared social developmental outcomes and patterns among bilingual children who attended CS and those who did not in London. A sample of 153 pupils aged 4–9 years was recruited including 73 across five CS settings and 80 across four state primary schools. Measures included strength of ethnic and national identities, cognitive, athletic and social competences, exposure and proficiency for each language, and family affluence (FA). Results showed that CS-attendees reported higher proficiency in HL, particularly in literacy, compared to non-attendees. Ethnic and British identities were positively associated with the respective language’s proficiency and exposure in both groups, while unique patterns were also observed. Regression models confirmed the unique contributions of HL and CS to ethnic identity, but age and FA were also significant predictors of English proficiency and social competencies. Findings indicate the supportive roles of CS and HL and identity development. Further considerations of these and other factors in subsequent research are discussed.

Key words Bilingualism, complementary schools, heritage languages, identity

The value of knowing: conscious and unconscious writing choices

Susan Jones, University of Exeter, Graduate School of Education, St Luke’s Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 2LU, United Kingdom

Abstract This article is concerned with how developing writers use grammar knowledge to make choices in writing and the extent to which this knowledge is conscious and the choices deliberate. Drawing on case study data with 24 school-aged writers involved in a three-year longitudinal study, the article reports the pattern of conscious and unconscious choices being made. It will reveal how curriculum emphasis has tended to prioritise grammatical use over rhetorical purpose, thus raising grammatical use to conscious awareness. The data also shows how linguistic understanding appears first in text before being articulated as a conscious choice; thus raising a question as to the value of conscious and explicit grammatical understanding. The article will argue for a pedagogy that creates a space to talk about choices in order to lift unconscious writing decisions into conscious and useable awareness.

Key words Writing development, grammar knowledge, linguistic knowledge, writing choices, metalinguistic understanding, writing pedagogy, talk for writing

Beyond market and language commodification: Contemplating social-market value and social-welfare concerns in language education policy and practice in Pakistan

Syed Abdul Manan, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Nursultan (Astana), Kazakhstan

Sham Haidar, Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Rooh UI Amin, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan

Abstract This study demonstrates how stakeholders’ treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative exchange value. The findings are based on semi-structured interviews with students, teachers, and administrators/principals conducted in schools and a university during three different PhD studies. This article specifically focusses on how stakeholders view English-medium education and indigenous languages. Given stakeholders’ diversity-as-a-problem orientations and rationalization of English-medium education, we propose an epistemic reorientation in which the social-market value of languages and social-welfare considerations may become the basis of language-in-education policy and planning. Social-market value refers to the role languages play as social, educational, cultural, and pedagogical resources for the larger social development, peace, and integration of society. The social-market perspective upholds multilingualism as a resource rather than as a problem. The article concludes that academic researchers could use intellectual activism as change agents to foster critical multilingual awareness and expose stakeholders to alternative competing epistemologies. This awareness is expected to help redress the conceptual myths and fallacies most stakeholders hold about the social potential of languages and multilingualism.

Key words Language commodification, language policy and planning, social-market value, Pakistan, indigenous languages

Constructing the pedagogy of multiliteracies. The role of focalisation in the development of critical analysis of multimodal narratives

Íris Susana Pires Pereira, Research Centre on Education, Institute of Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Ângela Campos, Agrupamento de Escolas de Professor Óscar Lopes, Matosinhos, Portugal

Abstract This paper aims to contribute to the construction of multiliteracies pedagogy. We argue that the analysis of focalisation is an essential dimension in multiliteracies pedagogy aimed at promoting the development of critical analysis of multimodal narratives. Our point is sustained by a case study of focalisation in an animated narrative comprising a hybrid multimodal text offered for students learning about refugees in a public digital platform. We performed a critical analysis of the visual narrative supported by a grammar of focalisation in animated images and a framework for critical analysis of multimodal discourse. The analysis shows that viewers (and characters) are differently positioned throughout the text as uninvolved observers of the represented characters as ‘others’; as emphatic witnesses of the others’ suffering; and as committed social actors who see the refugees as ‘one of us’. We interpret these findings as conveying different ideological meanings associated with assimilatory or liberating ideologies. We discuss the major implications of our findings concerning the role of focalisation in the enactment of critical analysis of multimodal texts, the interdependence of critical analysis vis-à-vis the other learning processes as well as the need for teachers’ professional development as a pre-requisite to construct the pedagogy of multiliteracies.

Key words Multimodality, visual narrative, critical literacy, focalization, multiliteracies, critical analysis of multimodal discourse

第2期摘要

Impact of language-training programs on French educators’ interactions and child syntax development

Emmanuelle Canut, Department of Linguistics, University of Lille, Lille, France

Caroline Masson, Department of Linguistics, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

Magali Husianycia, Association de Formation et de Recherche sur le Langage (AsFoReL), Nancy, France

Abstract Studies that measure the effectiveness of language-training program for children’s language development do not clearly identify in adult-child interaction which characteristics of educators’ language are most effective, particularly for children over 4 years of age who need to develop complex syntactic skills. Our study aimed to analyze the language use of 26 educators (with different professions: teachers, animators, and employees) participating in French language-training program for preschoolers. This training was based on linguistic research on language acquisition and focused on syntax. A total of 131 children were recorded in adult-child joint narration in a dyadic interaction across six French cities and 20 preschools. The statistical analysis of the linguistic and pragmatic properties of the educators’ language while interacting with children demonstrated that the educators changed their language practices after training. This study also revealed that syntax complexity of educators’ input has a significant impact on syntax development of children.

Key words Language-training program, educators’ language, children’s language development, syntax, interaction

Improving English language arts instruction in Indiana dual language bilingual education classrooms

Woongsik Choi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US

Wan Hee Kim, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US

Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, US

Trish Morita-Mullaney, Purdue University: West Lafayette, IN, US

Abstract This paper reports on a mixed methods systematic classroom observation study as part of a federally funded project to improve instruction for English language learners (ELLs) in Indiana Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) classrooms. Participating DLBE teachers received professional development through online ELL licensure and DLBE certificate coursework along with on-site sociocultural instructional coaching. Participants include 15 teachers (7 treatment DLBE teachers; 8 comparison non-DLBE teachers). We observed and video recorded each teacher’s English language arts (ELA) block four times over 18 months to examine changes over time and determine the impact of the coursework and coaching on their instructional practices. Using the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), we compare the scores of the two groups over time. We also provide analytic classroom vignettes for six of the eight SIOP components to illustrate how treatment teachers’ instruction improved over time. The findings generally demonstrate that the treatment led to improvements in the overall quality of sheltered ELA instruction of the DLBE teachers, but also reveal areas in need of more attention within DLBE teacher professional development.

Key words Dual language bilingual education (DLBE), English language learners (ELLs), English language arts (ELA), Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), Indiana

Discrimination in the gig economy: the experiences of Black online English teachers

Nathaniel Ming Curran, Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Abstract This article examines the rapidly expanding market for online English learning and tutoring. It focuses on the experiences of Black American online English teachers employed on a variety of popular online teaching platforms (e.g. Cambly, italki, PalFish, VIPKid etc.). Specifically, the article considers how specific affordances of online English teaching platforms (e.g. customer ratings and algorithms) function to disadvantage non-White teachers. In order to address these issues, the article brings together two relevant but distinct literatures: scholarship on language ideologies and scholarship on algorithms and the gig economy. The data analyzed include: Semi-structured interviews with Black online English teachers; the websites of popular teaching platforms; and posts in public Reddit threads focused on online English teaching. The findings demonstrate how Black teachers experience the intersection of customer-based ratings and algorithms within the burgeoning online English teaching industry. The article concludes by advocating for scholars to more systematically engage with and study online tutoring platforms’ use of rating and algorithms.

Key words Native speakerism, online English teaching, gig economy, algorithmic bias, raciolinguistic ideologies

An analysis of the forms of teacher-student dialogue that are most productive for learning

Sara Hennessy, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Elisa Calcagni, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Alvin Leung, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Neil Mercer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Abstract Dialogic approaches based on active student participation, open, respectful discussion, exploring and critiquing different perspectives are increasingly found to support student learning. However, the specific productive forms of teacher-student interaction have rarely been studied systematically. A recent large-scale project explored the relationship between dialogic forms of interaction and learning outcomes for students aged 10–11 in primary school classrooms in England. This follow-up study built on the dataset and outcomes of that study. The objective here was to generate insights into the forms of interaction observable within classes achieving higher and lower learning gains in English and mathematics. Sociocultural discourse analysis combined in-depth qualitative analysis with corpus linguistics methods. The specific forms of dialogue emerging in the earlier study as most productive for learning from turn-by-turn coding and whole-lesson ratings were analysed in more depth. The findings offer rich illustrations of how the productive features are manifested in authentic classroom practice. The outcomes contribute to our understanding of which specific forms of teacher-student dialogue support learning, and how teachers may actively promote these.

Key words Classroom dialogue, primary school, student participation, mixed methods, sociocultural discourse analysis, concordance analysis

Supportive primary teacher beliefs towards multilingualism through teacher training and professional practice

Sanna Pohlmann-Rother, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sarah Désirée Lange, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Laura Zapfe, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Daniel Then, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Abstract Teaching multilingual learning groups is an important part of the professional activity of primary teachers in Germany, placing high demands on their occupational professionalism. The aim of this article is to analyse the effects of educational and occupational influencing factors on the beliefs of teachers regarding multilingualism as a facet of pedagogical professionalism. The data is based on the ‘BLUME-study’, in which primary teachers (N = 123) were asked about their beliefs regarding multilingualism. A linear regression model was used to analyse the extent to which the teachers’ beliefs are influenced: (a) by participating in learning opportunities on ‘German as a Second Language (GSL)’ in teacher training; (b) through experiences with multilingual students in teaching; (c) by participating in training on multilingualism in professional practice; and (d) by undertaking language-sensitive school programmes. Therefore, we analyse influencing factors drawn from both the university phase and the occupational phase of teacher professionalisation. The results show that the use of learning opportunities on the topic of ‘GSL’ in pre-service training and in in-service training as well as the positive evaluation of contact experiences in teaching lead to supportive beliefs towards multilingualism.

Key words Multilingualism, teachers’ beliefs, teacher professionalization, primary school, contact experiences

Variables influencing ESL teacher candidates’ language ideologies

Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

Abstract This is a mixed-method research study of the language ideologies of 180 teacher candidates enrolled in the English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) teacher preparation program at a large public university in the United States. The theoretical perspectives of critical pedagogy and language ideology form the framework of this study. The data collection and analysis procedures encompassed different types and sources of data to ensure a triangulated data set. Data included teacher candidates’ responses to a language survey, open-ended questions and interviews. The reliability of data analysis was ensured with the inter-rater technique. Findings of the study suggest that there were six major language ideologies held by the teacher candidates and that relevant demographic and experiential variables influenced some of these ideologies. The study concludes with practical and research implications for language teacher education.

Key words ESL, ideology, teacher education, language teaching, emergent bilinguals

Language considerations in refugee education: languages for opportunity, connection, and roots

Celia Reddick, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

Vidur Chopra, Department of International and Transcultural Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA

Abstract Currently 26 million people live as refugees, 40% of whom are school-aged. As global policy shifts to include refugee children and young people in education systems in settings of exile, language-in-education emerges as an under-explored challenge for refugee learners and the education systems they join. Refugee young people face uncertain futures, prompting questions about which languages can enable refugees to realize their multi-directional aspirations. Drawing on 80 semi-structured interviews with 45 Sudanese, South Sudanese, and Syrian refugee young people living in Uganda and Lebanon, we analyze the linguistic experiences of refugees across locations, ages, and educational stages. We find that current practices of inclusion within national education systems in exile only partially attend to refugees’ linguistic needs. Global policies of educational inclusion focus almost exclusively on the languages of school and work in exile, an approach which fails to support refugees in meeting three key needs in exile: the need for opportunity, connection, and stable roots. Attention to these three needs can support refugee learners’ diverse linguistic repertoires as they develop the linguistic skills needed to navigate education in exile while also sustaining the languages that root young people in places, communities, and relationships of origin.

Key words Language-in-education, refugee, Uganda, Lebanon, language minority students, multilingual education

第3期摘要

Re-envisaging English medium instruction, intercultural citizenship development, and higher education in the context of studying abroad

Yusop Boonsuk, English Section, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand

Fan Fang, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, Shantou, China

Abstract Although the development of intercultural citizenship among university students has now been included as a key policy in international universities, pedagogical practices for promoting the awareness, understanding, and development of intercultural citizenship while studying abroad have reportedly been inadequate. To address this gap, this qualitative interview study 1) explores the perceptions of Thai and Chinese students enrolled in English-medium education programs on the development of intercultural citizenship and 2) identifies links between intercultural citizenship and English for students studying in international universities. The findings reveal that the participants generally had positive attitudes toward the concept of intercultural citizenship and agreed that living in a foreign country surrounded by individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds made it more effective to learn about and promote awareness of intercultural citizenship compared to staying in their homelands. They further demonstrate that English proficiency levels, exposure to teaching methods before studying abroad, and regular on-campus and off-campus activities with international friends from different linguistic-cultural backgrounds are significant in enhancing intercultural citizenship competencies. Further, some implications in terms of the promotion of intercultural citizenship education through English are also proposed and discussed.

Key words Intercultural citizenship, intercultural development, intercultural awareness, English-medium instruction, study abroad

A portrait of academic literacy in mid-adolescence: a computational longitudinal account of cognitive academic language proficiency during secondary school

Adrián Granados, Department of Philology and Translation, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

Antonio Lorenzo-Espejo, Departamento de Organización Industrial y Gestión de Empresas II, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Francisco Lorenzo, Department of Philology and Translation, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

Abstract This study describes academic literacy development during mid-adolescence, when learners need to adjust to the demands of academic discourse as a gateway to linguistic adulthood. Unlike most research to date, which is cross-sectional and detached from disciplinary content, this study provides a two-year longitudinal description of academic language in the form of history essays. During the two-year study, a group of 20 students (whose first language was Spanish) produced a corpus of history essays in relation to topics covered in the official curriculum. These essays were processed with MultiAzterTest, a state-of-the-art computational tool that produces linguistic and discursive representations of texts. A statistical analysis of the metrics shows a significant evolution of key measures, which may contribute to charting academic language literacy. More precisely, the results point to a statistically significant evolution of the length of language units (i.e. the amount of words, sentences and paragraphs), in syntactic complexity (i.e. the proportion of nouns and the complexity of noun phrases), in lexical richness (i.e. the frequency and precision of lexis) and in cohesion metrics (i.e. the overall use of connectives), hence exploring the boundaries between basic child speech and adult discourse.

Key words Language development, literacy development, academic language, computational analysis, MultiAzterTest

Teaching higher-order thinking skills to multilingual students in elementary classrooms

Deon Victoria Heffington, Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México

Maria R. Coady, Teacher Education and Learning Sciences (TELS), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Abstract Educational systems worldwide underscore the importance of developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) to prepare students for the new challenges of the XXI century. Some pressing issues faced by educators include the ambiguity of the construct; the implementation of HOTS in classroom practices; and the implications for teaching students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. Framed in Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching, this article reports on a qualitative case study that explored how two elementary school teachers developed HOTS with emerging multilingual students. Using the constant comparative method (CCM), data collection included observations and artifacts; data analysis included open, axial coding, and category formation. Findings show that: (a) HOTS were framed as subskills in instructional practices; (b) teachers used multiple activities to develop HOTS, progressing from lower to higher-order thinking; and (c) teachers differentiated instruction considering students’ language level and background experiences, but did not account for the additional layers of complexity when interrelating HOTS to language. This article builds on existing theories and frameworks of HOTS, provides examples of activities for developing HOTS, and offers recommendations for teaching HOTS to multilingual learners.

Key words Higher-order thinking skills, HOTS, multilingual, elementary, teaching

Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement

Ingrid Piller, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Ana Sofia Bruzon, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Hanna Torsh, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Abstract This paper investigates the communication strategies of schools to engage linguistically diverse parents through enrollment information on their websites. The importance of the study is due to the known educational disadvantage experienced by migrant children as well as the known positive influence of parental engagement on educational achievement. Against this background, we ask whether English-speaking and non-English-speaking parents have equal opportunities to support the education of their children through accessible high-quality enrollment information provided by their local school. To this end, we analyze language choice, multilingual information architecture, and references to linguistic diversity on the websites of 30 highly linguistically diverse Australian primary schools. English was found to be the exclusive medium of communication, even in schools where up to 98% of students speak another language at home. Where automated translation options or hyperlinks to external translated information are available, these follow a monolingual logic and are listed by language names in English rather than targeting the specific languages of the school community. References to linguistic diversity are rare but serve to normalize monolingual practices while regulating and otherizing linguistic diversity. The study thus demonstrates that accessible enrollment information in languages other than English is virtually non-existent. We close with implications for more inclusive design and professional development to foster greater parental engagement in linguistically diverse societies.

Key words Home-school communication, inclusive design, monolingual habitus of multilingual schools, multilingual websites, parental engagement, school language management

Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages

Carly Steele, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; School of Education, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Gillian Wigglesworth, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract Most Indigenous peoples live in urban and regional locations across Australia and no longer speak their traditional languages fluently. Instead contact languages, creoles and dialects, are widely spoken. In many educational settings, educators may know little about the first languages of the Indigenous children they teach, and not recognise these as different languages or dialects. Consequently, these students may not be treated as second language learners of Standard Australian English (SAE) and their language learning requirements are not considered. From a sociocultural perspective, language is crucial to students’ learning. In this paper, we quantitatively analyse the SAE learning needs of Indigenous primary school aged children in Far North Queensland using oral elicited imitation of simple sentences in SAE as a research method. Using one-way ANOVA, the results are compared with native monolingual SAE speakers showing significant differences between the two. This finding has important implications for classroom teaching practices and educational policies.

Key words Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, contact languages, English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D), TESOL, Standard Australian English (SAE), language differences, Indigenous education, primary schools, elicited imitation

Agency and feedback-seeking: academic English socialization of L2 students in Hong Kong

Chit Cheung Matthew Sung, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Abstract This paper extends our understanding of agency in second language (L2) students’ academic English socialization by reporting on an investigation into how two mainland Chinese doctoral students enacted their agency in feedback-seeking for improving academic English writing during their studies in an English-medium university in Hong Kong. The findings show that the ways in which they exercised their agency to seek language feedback from socializing agents varied between individuals and in different feedback-seeking contexts. In particular, their enactments of feedback-seeking agency are found to be differentially shaped not only by their academic writing goals, but also by the habitus derived from their past experiences and the forms of social and cultural capital they accumulated prior to and during their doctoral studies. The findings also reveal that their language ideologies regarding the role of native-speaker norms in academic English writing mediated their feedback-seeking agency by exerting influence on their academic writing goals and their perceptions of different socializing agents as affordances for their language socialization. Overall, this paper offers more nuanced understandings of agency in L2 students’ academic English socialization and illustrates the complex and dynamic interplay between agency, goal, habitus, capital and language ideology in shaping their feedback-seeking behaviour.

Key words Academic discourse socialization, L2 students, agency, capital, feedback-seeking

Theorising the dynamics of heritage language identity development: a narrative inquiry of the life histories of three Chinese heritage speakers

Yue Zhou, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Yongcan Liu, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Abstract This article examines the dynamics of heritage language (HL) identity development by analysing the life history accounts of three Chinese heritage language (CHL) learners growing up in the UK. Drawing on narrative data, the study contributes to the growing body of HL identity research by capturing the individual trajectories of CHL learners engaging with different interlocutors, at multiple sites, and across the lifespan. We report the various ways our participants are positioned by the essentialist discourses of Chineseness and how they learn to (re)position themselves as competent HL learners and legitimate members of the diasporic community. The findings highlight the need to understand HL learners’ identity and agency as emergent from varied social interactions embedded within one’s personal history. In light of the findings, we propose an original model to theorise the dynamics of HL identity development from a historical, spatial, and relational lens, and conclude with practical suggestions to encourage HL learning and maintenance.

Key words Heritage language education, identity development, Chinese as a heritage language, narrative inquiry, life history

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Language and Education provides a forum for the discussion of recent topics and issues in language and literacy which have an immediate bearing upon thought and practice in education. Articles draw important and well-communicated implications from their subject matter for one or more of the following: policy, curriculum, pedagogy or evaluation in education.

The task of the Journal is to encourage language specialists and researchers in language in education and educational linguists to organise and present their material in such a way as to highlight its educational implications, thereby influencing educational theorists and practitioners and leading to improved educational outcomes for students.

《语言与教育》聚焦探讨语言文学前沿问题，对教育的思想和实践有直接影响。该期刊的范围包括：教育政策，课程，教学法或评估。

该期刊鼓励语言专家和语言教育研究人员、专家突出教育启发，从实践和理论两个层面提升学生的教育成果。

Articles are welcomed concerning all aspects of language education in the dominant language of the country, society, or educational system in question. This includes mother tongue and second language education, issues related to immersion education, content-based language teaching, CLIL, bi/multilingualism, and medium-of-instruction. The remit of Language and Education, however, does not extend to modern foreign language education (i.e. modern foreign languages or English as a foreign language).

该期刊欢迎有关国家，社会或教育体系的语言教育的文章。涵盖母语和二语言教育，沉浸式教育、内容教学法、内容与语言整合教学，双语/多语和教学媒介等话题。其范围不涵盖现代外语教育（即现代外语或英语作为外语）。

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