Abstract Socially constructed and globally propagated East-West binaries have influenced language ideologies about English in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they are not hegemonic. This essay explores how reformed mergers with Mandarin-minority ideologies. It discusses two separate similar recent studies minority speakers PRC, respectively by Grey Baioud. Each study reveals aspects M...

Language teachers struggle to shift from monolingual ideologies and pedagogical practices, as advocated for in the promotion of multilingualism inclusive pedagogy. Additionally, role English a multilingua franca pushes rethink their beliefs about language its use. Even when positive multilingualism, are often uncertain how address complexities multilingual ideals due varying contextual factors ...

media can be a good representation of dominant ideologies in society. the analysis of such discourse can shed light on the mental and social structures of people in society. adopting van dijk’s (1995) layout of discourse ideology and his (2000) practical and general outline of ideological analysis, this study analyzes the iranian movie a separation, the winner of the 84th annual academy award f...

This article analyzes the critical language awareness (CLA) of Spanish university-level students who were enrolled in a 16-week heritage (SHL) course, using CLA as an instructional approach. Students’ attitudes towards bilingualism, Spanglish, variation, and prescriptivist grammar measured via pretest posttest surveys that used four-point Likert scale strongly agree, disagree, or along with tex...

Abstract This article deals with the powerful role of metaphors in process Language Making throughout history linguistics. It departs from assumption that play an essential both formation scientific theories and common conceptions language. We want to illuminate what extent are involved language ideologies, we investigate their linguistic theory formation. After introducing different approaches...

Identifying individual’s political ideology from their speeches and written texts is important for analyzing political opinions and user behavior on social media. Traditional opinion mining methods rely on bag-of-words representations to classify texts into different ideology categories. Such methods are too coarse for understanding political ideologies. The key to identify different ideologies...

This research aims to investigate the contributions of KARDS (knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing) to Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) institute teachers’ professional identity reconstruction. The researchers employed purposive sampling to choose twenty teachers. A KARDS questionnaire (Hassani, Khatib, & Yazdani Moghaddam, 2019a, 2019b) was used to classify the teacher...