Posted by John Wuorenmaa on February 18, 2010
The week after giving his BLC lecture, Professor Andrew Cohen visited Claire Kramsch’s “Language and Power” class and provided the students with an overview of the field of applied linguistics – what it is, what it researches, and where one can study it. His accompanying slide show is attached. Downloads → Download the Applied Linguistics…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 23, 2001
Critical Applied Linguistics as Problematizing Practice by Alastair Pennycook, Professor of Language in Education, Faculty of EducationUniversity of Technology, Sydney, Australia This seminar will discuss significant themes in critical applied linguistics, providing an overview of this emergent approach to issues in language policy and planning, translation and interpreting, language education, discourse analysis, literacy, language in…
Li, Houxiang
Volume 05 Issue 2
Most conversation analysis (CA) studies of the initiation-response-feedback (IRF; Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975) sequence have focused on teacher actions in the feedback move. In this article, I use CA to analyze student initiatives (Waring, 2011) within an IRF sequence in one excerpt from a Chinese as a foreign language class...
Park, Gloria
Volume 05 Issue 1
In this paper, I highlight four distinct but interconnected areas of my life history that I refer to as autobiographic poetic waves. These waves are layered with the complex underpinning of racial, linguistic, gendered, classed, and professional identity politics...
Lapidus, Alec, Yalda M. Kaveh, & Mamiko Hirano
Volume 05 Issue 1
This qualitative, naturalistic study examines thoughts expressed in autoethnographies and accompanying notes written by ESL teachers/learners who are enrolled in a graduate teacher education program in the US. These data are then juxtaposed with the Freirean idea that English learners can be empowered if they analyze their personal paths critically...
Smith, Maya
Volume 05 Issue 2
SLA research on foreign language pedagogy has long demonstrated that culture is essential to language learning. However, presenting culture in the language classroom poses certain problems. For learners, there is a tendency to stereotype others and to rely excessively on the teacher. For teachers, there is a tendency to transmit isolated facts without elaboration and to associate a target language with a single monolithic culture. This article...