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Heni, Xiong; Xiaofang, Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
Basil Bernstein argues that speech events bear class characteristics, and different social classes exhibit different linguistic typologies, coding and meaning. Although working-class language is characterized as a closed code in terms of its language structure, it possesses unique educational power, specifically manifesting as its unique meanings…
Descriptors: Working Class, Social Class, Language Variation, Speech Communication
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Zapata, Angie; Kuby, Candace R.; Thiel, Jaye Johnson – Journal of Literacy Research, 2018
In this article, the authors (re)think writing as an ethical endeavor to explore and to cultivate more inclusive orientations for writing research and teaching. Situated in posthumanist scholarship on intra-activity, trans-corporeality, and translingual assemblages, they provide data-theory encounters that resist the privileging of alphabetic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Writing Instruction, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
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Preece, Siân – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
As universities in the Anglophone world attend to operating on a global stage, linguistic diversity in the sector has intensified. Historically, higher education has adopted language-as-problem orientations to managing linguistic diversity, viewing multilingual repertoires largely as an obstacle. An emerging body of work informed by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Higher Education, Multilingualism