With English hegemony sustained in ‘multicultural’ Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on work Pierre Bourdieu probe Chinese international students’ academic language practice response monolin...

Choices regarding how signs are displayed in schools send messages the status of languages and speakers those languages. The monolingual paradigm can be implicitly reified by position, shape, color, etc. relation to English on school signage (Author & Co-author, 2018). This have a negative impact for culturally linguistically diverse youth. In combining critical race media literacy with lin...

In 2003, Mary Louise Pratt published a hugely influential paper in Profession where she took to task misconceptions about multilingualism and language learning apparent the USA wake of 9/11 consequent counter-terrorism measures. She argued that new public idea was necessary order ensure unity security. This article argues aftermath Brexit, UK also needs develop future is prosperous, socially, c...

Senegal is a West African country that highly diverse and multilingual on societal individual level. Multilingualism used in most interactions of peoples� everyday lives translanguaging fashion. Yet, beside some small efforts, the only official language institutional sector education remains French. However, educational systems policies do not reflect reality people they are created for since m...

To succeed at cross-situational word learning, learners must infer word-object mappings by attending to the statistical co-occurrences of novel objects and labels across multiple encounters. While past studies have investigated this as a learning mechanism for infants and monolingual adults, bilinguals' cross-situational word learning abilities have yet to be tested. Here, we compared monolingu...

In this response, I take the concept of monolingualism as a starting point to reflect on authors’ comments regarding my lead article. For long time, research in conversation analysis has mistakenly assumed that monolingual studies can explain universal structures. Moreover, new Common European Framework (2020) is also still based separate tests. The authors agree secondary school exams require ...

This paper investigates the potential of conceptual divergences within and between languages for providing intellectual resources for theorizing. Specifically, it explores the role of multilingual researchers in using the possibilities of the plurality of intellectual cultures and languages they have access to for theorizing International Service Learning (ISL). In doing so, this investigation ...