Abundant research on the relationship between ideologies and sexual prejudice has not focused on intergroup ideologies such as colorblindness, multiculturalism, and polyculturalism. In three studies with racially and ethnically diverse college and community samples, endorsement of polyculturalism— an ideology focusing on the interactions, influences, and connections among racial and ethnic grou...

Abstract Language standardization involves minimizing variation, especially in written forms of language. That process includes judgments about people who don‘t or can‘t use the standard forms. These kinds can unfairly limit people's access to opportunities, including educational and professional realms. In this essay, we discuss standardized language varieties specific ways beliefs ideologies ...

This study discusses the use of poetry in language teaching by focusing on John Agard’s poems. The paper analyzes poems to enact resistant plurilingual pedagogies suggested Flores (2013) across classrooms. In this analysis, that reacts emphasis standardized English used those countries where is spoken as first language. Agard refuses speak and write a traditional structure language, his lay bar...

The study reported here examined the developmental antecedents of conservative versus liberal ideologies using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and a follow-up study conducted when the sample was 18 years old. Specifically, we examined variation in conservative versus liberal ideologies at age 18 years as a fu...

AbstractPrint advertisements not only directly try to persuade buyers but also indirectly play a role in shaping their social attitude. An interesting area of research that as yet has received little or no attention is the study of the representations of females in magazines that their readers are mostly women. This study examined print advertisements in local family and health magazine from a ...

English is regarded as a key to globalization or internationalization and future success for Taiwan its people. One of the most extraordinary results English-as-the-global-language teaching learning in private language schools are ubiquitous. Research into how weld together has yet received much attention. This study aims investigate Taiwan’s schools’ television commercials market what underlyi...

Extracting incompatible values in the best-sellers current in ELT markets is a real concern. In this study, the researchers tried to bring some claims/counterclaims for hidden ideologies regarding two imported English language teaching coursebooks-Four Corners and Impact Values Series, which are commonly taught within Iranian English language institutes. The main intention was that they might t...

Considering the fact that engagement with political economy is central to any fully rounded analysis of language and language-related issues in the neoliberal-stricken world today, and that applied linguistics has ignored the role of political economy (Block, Gray, & Holborow, 2012),  for the first time, this study investigated the representations of neoliberal ideologies in the Interchange Thi...