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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"linguistic identity"”.
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“If you wanted me to speak your language then you should have stayed in your country”: a critical ethnography of linguistic identity and resiliency in the life of an Afghan refugee
… choice is also how she claims agency over her identity. This stability, in turn, empowers Nasreen to cultivate a dual identity that allows her to acculturate into American society and maintain a cultural integrity that is coherent with her worldview and sense of self. Finally, Nasreen’s use of …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… social forces. Drawing on frameworks of identity, agency, and critical language awareness, the study explores how Spanish shapes participants’ Latine identities and what factors influence their language investment. Using a qualitative grounded-theory approach, I collected data from ten …
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Collaborative and Genre-Based Writing in the L2 Writing Classroom
… a means of helping L2 writers strengthen their linguistic identity and empower them in the academy and beyond. </p>
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… Taiwan’s complex socio-political, cultural and linguistic context. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to explore how participants perceive linguistic value and culture, and how this perception has an influence on self-identity throughout the process of learning languages, while also …
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Publishing Anglophone Wales: Politics, Culture and the ‘Classic’ Novel
… sense of cultural, political and above all linguistic identity. The same questions have accompanied the emergence of, and not insignificant ideological tensions encompassed by, the literary-critical field which has come to be known as ‘Welsh Writing in English’.<br/><br/>This research …
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Runic writing in Orkney: expression of a Norse identity?
… Orcadian corpus of runic inscriptions and how identity is expressed in it.<br/>In this PhD project, the 54 Viking Age and Late Norse runic inscriptions from Orkney have been reviewed, with some addition and removals from the corpus, and put into a wider context, using interdisciplinary methods …
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EDUCATION IDENTITY BEYOND ASSIMILATION VESTIGES: A TEACHER’S LATINA IDENTITY IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
… middle school ESL classroom through her Latina identity and lived experiences. Data gathering occurred over six months through the principal participant's in-depth interviews, classrooms observations, and document analysis of classroom materials. Through snowballing I conducted additional …
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Cariño in the Borderlands: Pedagogical Relationships in a Community-Based Education Support Program
… tutor mentors navigate issues of cultural and linguistic identity in these relationships. Furthermore, I examine how discourses of identity and community are articulated by the tutor mentors in the development of these relationships. Identity featured prominently in participant narratives, and …
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A critically-engaged syncretic language narrative of two building trades students and their families: developing identity-resonance for self-actualising minorities’ right to be, believe and belong.
… and how it symbolically signifies the identity of two FE Building Trade students, their families and me. A social constructionist epistemology frames how the mutually- constituted and inter-related meanings and semiotics of the mediating contexts, are understood. Data elicitation occurs …
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The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Chinese Students
… as Uyghur and Kazakh interact and compete for linguistic prestige in different social scenarios. The power relations between the Turkic languages, including the Uyghur language, and Mandarin Chinese is one in which minority languages are surrounded by a dominant state language supported through …
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Conceptualising ESL Language Teacher Identity: Changing Classroom Practice through Action Research
An individual’s identity is fundamental to their understanding of the self, together with their positioning in relation to the world and others within it. Similarly, language teacher identity (LTI), a burgeoning area of inquiry within the field of language teacher cognition, is increasingly …
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The Complexity of Pronominal Address in Spanish: The Case of Hispanic Communities in Philadelphia and Their Linguistic Landscape
… the use of Pronouns of Address (PoA), in the linguistic landscape and oral communication within Hispanic communities in Philadelphia. Based on the hypothesis that language is a complex, dynamic, and adaptive system, this study analyzes how a diasporic context adds an additional layer to the …
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Die sprachliche Zweifaltigkeit Laufenburgs. Eine soziolinguistische Studie am Hochrhein
… study is intended to add a further piece to the linguistic research carried out so far along the German-Swiss border, in particular between southern Baden and northern canton Aargau. The subject of the analysis are the twin towns Laufenburg Baden and Laufenburg Aargau, which lie on opposite sides …
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Exploring Systemic Injustice and Wellbeing among Uyghurs in Australia
… addition to the potential loss of cultural and linguistic identity. Participants experienced a greater sense of agency after resettling in Australia and becoming engaged in advocacy for the rights and freedoms of all Uyghurs. Overall, the findings of thesis indicated that justice is an important …
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Performing the (un)inherited language, identity, performance
… in Post-Apartheid South Africa is central to identity construction and discern in what ways this construction informs my approach to creating performance. I use this paper to offer a frame as to how a relationship to language is socially and historically constructed in post-apartheid South …
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Language maintenance by Haitian immigrants in the USA: a case study of the Chicago community
… Chicago been able to successfully maintain their linguistic repertoire inter-generationally without shifting to English? (2) If so, how have they managed to achieve this difficult task? And (3), if they have not been as successful, because they have experienced, for example, attrition some in one …
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Weaving their identities: a narrative inquiry into Korean heritage language learners
… Many scholars have explored language usages, identity formation, and influence of social class on language learning (Bucholtz 2011; Gee, 2002; Hill, 2001; Mendoza-Denton, 2008; Norton, 1990; Rampton, 1995). However, while heritage language courses at universities are increasingly popular …