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The Academic Literacy of International Postgraduate Students in Australia: A Cause for Concern?

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the academic literacy challenges faced by international postgraduate students at a South Australian university and evaluates the effectiveness of existing institutional support mechanisms. Drawing on survey data, the study highlights significant difficulties in academic reading, writing, and spoken communication, with ...
Werner Botha, Kingsley Bolton, Liu Fei Tan, Lauren Lines, Louisa Matwiejczyk, Salmin Mostafa, Gerti Szili   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Socially prescriptive speech technologies (SPSTs) are technologies that claim to provide feedback to speakers about how other humans perceive their speech and communication style, based on algorithms trained on a set of static, prescriptive standards.
Nicole Holliday
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Discourses and Realities of English: Japanese Undergraduates’ Everyday Online and Offline Language Experiences

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

What is language for sociolinguists? The variationist, ethnographic, and conversation-analytic ontologies of language

Linguistik Online, 2017
The present investigation explores the language definitions (i. e. the language ontologies) that have emerged in the field of sociolinguistics. In general, it examines three types of sociolin-guistic studies: Labovian sociolinguistics (Labov 1972), the ...
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
doaj   +1 more source

Global Interns or Learners of Japanese?: American Interns’ Negotiation of Positioning Across Orders of Indexicality in Japanese Workplaces

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid Japan's internationalization efforts, foreign employees are positioned as global English‐speaking talent while simultaneously facing expectations to conform to Japanese linguacultural norms. This study examines how such tensions are negotiated through the narratives of two interns—one African American and one Vietnamese American—in ...
Hae Ree Jun
wiley   +1 more source

TO THE SOURCES OF DIACHRONIC SOCIOLINGUISTICS: GLOBAL EXPERIENCE AND UKRAINIAN PROBLEMATICS

Записки з українського мовознавства, 2017
The subject of the suggested research is a new sphere of sociolinguistics – diachronic sociolinguistics: its sources, subject of the research and tasks.
І. Д. Фаріон
doaj   +1 more source

Enacting Everyday Linguistic Citizenship: Language Life and Multi‐Membership Among Young Malaysian Chinese Immigrants in Australia

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and ...
Xiaoyi Zhang, Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, John Hajek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on semistructured interviews with 14 CISs, the study highlights that pre‐migration socialization in China influences how CISs perceive and interpret their ...
Gengqi Xiao, Hailing Wang, Jing Yu
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‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source