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Racialized and Sexualized Branding in Japan's Online Eikaiwa Industry: The Objectification of Female Eastern European Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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Generative AI, Linguistic Hierarchies and Unequal Access in Under‐Resourced Educational Contexts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing enthusiasm around generative AI (GenAI) as a transformative force in education, access to these technologies remains profoundly unequal. This qualitative study examines how educators and students in under‐resourced Chinese educational contexts experience unequal access to GenAI and interpret its consequences for language ...
Jinming Du, Qinghua Chen, Wei Wei
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Embodied Narrations: Video Narrative Inquiry for Meaning‐Making of Learning Contexts

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This text begins with the initial question of how we can narrate in a situated and meaningful way about the processes of teaching and learning, not to repeat what we imagine that we should say and already know, but to be truthful with respect to the issues that affect us and matter to us.
Olaia Miranda Berasategi, Alaitz Sasiain Camarero‐Nuñez, Estibaliz Aberasturi‐Apraiz   +2 more
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Methodological Advancements in Dialect Identification Tasks: Perception, Representation and Social Meaning in South East England

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech excerpts. This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of uniting five strands of investigation in dialect identification tasks: (1 ...
Amanda Cole
wiley   +1 more source

DESIGNING STUDENTS WORKSHEET: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS APPROACH FOR TESTING SPEAKING AND LISTENING

Ta'dib, 2016
This article discusses about an approach to create a good test for speaking and listening subject.  The facts showed that many of the tests were created based on the teacher’s needs, not yet based on the goal of the test itself.
IRWAN IRWAN
doaj  

An investigation of teachers’ questions as a tool to feature social constructivism in sociolinguistics lessons: a case study in a Vietnamese university

Cogent Education
Social constructivism has been proved to be an effective approach toward learner-centered lessons and active learning with the essential role of teachers’ quality questions to trigger discussions. This research study was conducted at a private university
Phan Thuy Thien Huong, Do Thi Ngoc Diem
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(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
wiley   +1 more source

Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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