This article analyzes the academic identity constructions of applied linguists in the context of interdisciplinary collaborations as they seek to integrate language and content at the curricular core of an increasingly multilingual and multicultural university in Western Canada. The study draws on transcripts of audiotaped monthly meetings, framed…

Examines the representation of culture in texts designed for adult learners of English as a Second Language in Canada. Guiding the analysis is a view of culture as a process of making sense of the world and a site of struggles of people with multiple and shifting identities over meaning and representation. (Author/VWL)

Outlines an approach to cultural instruction in adult second language education called "culture exploration," which calls for the recognition of ambiguity embedded in cross-cultural encounters. Culture exploration consists of employing techniques of ethnographic participant observation in and outside the classroom and holding reflective,…

Offers a rejoinder to a response written about a previous article, "Living with Ambiguity: Toward Culture Exploration in Adult Second-Language Classrooms." Suggests the response offers a useful contribution to a much-needed conversation on how to attend to culture in adult second language classrooms at a time of the reconceptualization of the…