The monopoly of Western ideologies, theories and methods through English language education as well as the marginalization of Islamic values in English language learning materials has caused heated debates and controversies among Muslim TEFL scholars. In a descriptive and interpretive analysis, this study attempts to bring light to some theoretical issues pertained to language education and Isl...

Framed within critical poststructuralist sociolinguistics, this narrative study sheds light on the language ideologies and practices of eight Greek heritage (HL) teachers in schools Montreal Toronto. Examining teachers’ is important, as they can either engage or alienate HL learners. Engaging learners significant, because for many them school their only opportunity to use language. Language por...

Abstract Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study investigate this, with focus on Twitter representations of Spanish heritage language the USA. analysed two corpora (one English one Spanish—over 30 million words), examining frequencies, collocations, concordance ...

The present study investigates the possible impact of language ideologies on second proficiency. Based interviews and a thematic analysis, we explored among French long-term residents in Stockholm, Sweden. participants had contrasting proficiency levels host community language: five were categorised as low-performers Swedish high-performers Swedish, based two linguistic measures. Overall, low-p...