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Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This paper investigates the lived experiences of three Kuwaiti women as they construct and negotiate their professional identities as Muslim English language teachers in Kuwait. Building on the paucity of research surrounding religious identity and English language teaching contexts, positioning analysis and tactics of intersubjectivity were used…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Factors, Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept
Aysegül Takkaç Tulgar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The concept of glocal identity has captured researchers' imagination particularly in the last two decades and has been examined in relation with language learning. However, no study has yet touched upon pragmatic development in the target language under the effects of glocal identity. This longitudinal case study examined the development of glocal…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Global Approach, Turkish, Pragmatics
Dieuwerke Rutgers; Michael Evans; Linda Fisher; Karen Forbes; Angela Gayton; Yongcan Liu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Multilingualism is highly prevalent in schools around the world. Yet, the relationship between multilingualism and academic attainment is not well understood. Where research on this topic exists, it has predominantly focused on how home language background impacts on academic success, lacking in a broader view of multilingualism which extends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Multilingualism
Wen Xu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The "boy turn" in research on gender and education has sought to understand how social practices and schooling contribute to the process of orientation to particular identities. This paper applies the theories of affect to explore the story of an underprivileged, low-achieving Samoan boy, as he engaged with learning Chinese in an…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Males, Disadvantaged, Low Achievement
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This article describes the journey I embarked on as a teacher-researcher to better understand the realities of two of my Maya English learners (ELs) in our learning environment. This yearlong (2018-2019) study took the form of a qualitative case study inquiry whose purpose was to explore how two Maya migrant youth from Guatemala experienced and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Maya (People)
Qoyyimah, Uswatun; Singh, Parlo; Exley, Beryl; Doherty, Catherine; Agustiawan, Yosi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This paper contributes to the critical studies literature on English as an International Language (EIL) teacher professional identity. It examines the competing values associated with competencies in language teaching, national curriculum, and school contexts to determine how teachers' beliefs on what it means to be a professional teacher are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca; Bruce, Shanti; Vinyard, Deirdre – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This article reports on a cross-institutional, mixed-methods research study designed to gather data on first year writers' language backgrounds at three North American universities. Researchers administered a language survey to 1,870 first year writing students and led follow-up focus groups with 32 participants. Researchers utilized three methods…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Writing Instruction, College Freshmen, Case Studies
Moore, Ashley R. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Despite a growing body of knowledge regarding the relevance of queer people and their lives to language education, we still know little about the power of classrooms, institutions, and larger macro structural forces to shape--and be shaped by--the identity experiences of queer L2 learners. This article presents a comparative analysis of the…
Descriptors: Social Influences, LGBTQ People, Self Concept, Japanese
Lu, Luke – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In order to counter low birthrates, the Singapore state recruits top-performing students from China and Vietnam with scholarships to augment the local talent pool. Another criterion is that most immigrants must be ethnically Chinese, so as to fit into Singapore's majority racial group. This study examines whether and how race (or other factors)…
Descriptors: Race, Advantaged, Self Determination, High Achievement
Bouchard, Marie-Eve – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This qualitative study investigates the discursive construction of Santomean identity grounded in the migratory experience of youths who moved to Portugal to pursue their studies. It is based on semistructured interviews with young Santomeans living in Central Portugal. Santomeans typically identify as both native speakers of Portuguese and Black…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Migrants, Portuguese
José Igor Prieto-Arranz; Maria Juan-Garau; Francesca Mesquida-Mesquida – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This article provides qualitative information chronicling the study-abroad experiences of eight Erasmus+ students. Data were obtained from the analysis of focus-group discussions, e-journal narratives, plus background and language contact questionnaires. Combined, such data illustrate the participants' discursive positions on their socialisation…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Experience, Socialization, Self Concept
Tuuli From; Harriet Zilliacus; Gunilla Holm; Kirsi Wallinheimo – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This study focuses on students' orientations towards multilingualism in a Swedish-speaking educational degree program in Finland. Swedish is one of the two national languages in Finland and basic education is provided separately in Finnish and Swedish, even if the current national policies strongly support multilingualism in education. We analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Multilingualism, Self Concept
Sunny Man Chu Lau; Maria José Botelho; Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In this secondary research study, we investigate the text/identity/curriculum work enacted in a primary university-school project with third-grade children in Québec who were engaged in inquiry into children's rights through bilingual text production. Drawing on sociocultural perspectives of language and identity as well as translanguaging, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Childrens Rights, Bilingualism
"Daddy, Can You Speak Our Language?" Multilingual and Intercultural Awareness through Identity Texts
Sales, Auxiliadora; Marzà, Anna; Torralba, Gloria – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
The premise of the present paper is that an intercultural approach to multilingualism in schools generates inclusion and a construction of cultural and linguistic identity that respects the diversity of society and classrooms. Students, teachers, and families participated in an action research project conducted in four schools with the presence of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Student Diversity, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
Han, Yeji – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Although contextual influences on L2 motivation have been widely acknowledged, studies of underrepresented learners of less-commonly-taught languages have been extremely rare. To fill this gap, this study aimed to promote the local understanding of motivation among Vietnamese learners of Korean within the theoretical framework of L2 selves and…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction