Stance is a key and problematic domain for effective English Academic Purposes (EAP) reading writing. Insufficient awareness of stance, cultural attitudes about it, poor teaching have been identified as underlying sources stance-related difficulties. Focusing on stance may thus be pivotal reading-to-write lens to improve academic literacy. However, few studies investigated pre-service teachers’...

Drawing on interview data Kiezdeutsch, we argue that a focus gendered language ideologies is much needed to understand the social meanings ascribed multiethnolectal practices. By attuning carefully nuanced, subjective ideological stances of young multilingual women, show at interactional level, Kiezdeutsch constructed as consequence interviewees' practice and thus activates sense belonging enti...

Language contraction is shaped by the unequal distribution of power and resources, both between the language community and the dominant society, and within the contracting language community itself. Gender is connected to other social divisions and inequalities, rendering it central to processes of maintenance and loss. For indigenous groups struggling for recognition and rights, public acknowl...