Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
World Englishes,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025
Abstract
This
paper
examines
the
relationship
between
shame,
stigma
and
accent
for
non‐native
English
speakers
in
Spain.
The
low
competence
of
Spanish
population
frequently
constitutes
a
source
individual
collective
–
which
includes
apparent
undesirability
Spanish‐sounding
English.
Drawing
on
semi‐structured
interviews
conducted
Barcelona,
this
explores
participant
perceptions
around
L2
accent.
results
show
how
keenly
aware
they
are
surrounding
Also
revealed
is
some
people
may
engage
stylisation
(American)
order
to
reap
benefits
sounding
like
highly
proficient
speakers,
distance
themselves
from
locally
stigmatised
English‐speaking
persona.
These
attempts
can
however
backfire,
as
potentially
be
perceived
inauthentically
‘forcing’
an
argues
need
pay
close
attention
evolving
indexicalities
contrasting
social
personas
specific
localities.
Язык: Английский
Bridging the Gap Between Language Learning in and Beyond the Classroom
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
Foregrounding co-artistry in an aesthetic and plurilingual/pluriliteracies approach to additional language teaching and learning
Frontiers in Education,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
8
Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2024
In
this
article,
we
propose
an
aesthetic
and
plurilingual/pluriliteracies
approach
to
additional
(or
second,
foreign…)
language
teaching
learning.
The
research
reported
on
took
place
in
a
secondary
school
Barcelona
where
young
people
take
the
role
of
teachers
host
languages
(i.e.,
Catalan
Spanish)
adult
migrants.
We
focus
plurilingual
poetry
workshop
offered
program
as
empirical
foundation
for
proposed
approach.
Data
was
collected
ethnographically
during
through
participant
observation,
field
notes,
conversations,
video,
photography)
allowing
exploration
processes
outcomes.
consider,
one
hand,
opportunities
learning
made
possible
by
incorporating
arts-based
methods
plurilingualism/pluriliteracies
workshop.
On
other
ask
what
lens,
combined
with
recognition
plurilingualism/pluriliteracies,
can
offer
our
understanding
Our
results
suggest
that
co-artistry
is
opportunity
enhancing
Язык: Английский
Semiosis and ethicality in youth transnational digital storytelling
Routledge eBooks,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown, С. 189 - 212
Опубликована: Янв. 18, 2023
This
chapter
explores
an
ethical
dilemma
encountered
in
the
use
of
film
as
a
vehicle
for
creative
expression
and
transnational/transcultural
communication
global
youth
education
research
project.Global
StoryBridges
connects
young
people
from
different
sites
who
create
share
digital
stories.The
presented
was
conducted
at
site
Catalonia,
although
it
implicates
project
facilitators
Uganda.We
conduct
transmodal
analysis
particular
video
production
by
Catalan
which
deemed
to
be
too
controversial
shared
with
Ugandan
partners.We
consider
both
semiotic
assemblage
ethnographic
data
collected
during
process
after
had
been
removed
circulation.The
insight
into
how
semiosis
travels
across
places,
new
meanings
that
come
about
flow
communicative
resources.We
also
critically
reflect
on
arguments
sharing
or
removing
people's
circulation
lens
critical
cosmopolitanism,
model
21
st
century
citizenship.
Язык: Английский
Developing Cosmopolitanism Through Intercultural Mediation Activities: An After-School Digital Storytelling Project in Catalonia
Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
28(3), С. 1 - 19
Опубликована: Сен. 13, 2023
This
article
analyzes
interaction
taking
place
in
an
after-school
digital
storytelling
project,
involving
a
group
of
teenagers
Catalonia,
Spain,
with
different
lingua-cultural
backgrounds.
It
focuses
on
intercultural
mediation
activities
carried
out
one
the
early
project
sessions
which
young
girl
Ghanaian
origin
mobilizes
her
previous
life
experience
to
mediate,
for
local
peers
understanding
video
produced
by
Ugandan
youth.
The
data
is
transcribed
and
analyzed
using
multimodal
conversation
analytic
perspective.
Drawing
theoretical
concepts
mediation,
cosmopolitanism,
funds
knowledge,
this
investigates
following:
(a)
how
knowledge
mediate
content
other
audience
members
and,
(b)
cosmopolitanism
developed
mediation.
also
touches
collaboratively
constructed
across
modes,
languages,
material
objects.
findings
indicate
that
participants’
cosmopolitan
stances
are
enacted
enabled
as
youngsters
can
make
sense
cultural
they
not
tackle
well
their
own.
further
help
reconceptualize
competences,
resources
youth
superdiverse
interconnected
world.
Язык: Английский
The Languages That Started to Flourish in Our Childhood, Developed over Time into Beautiful Blooming Meadows
Cambridge University Press eBooks,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
unknown, С. 66 - 75
Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2022
Mercè
Bernaus
grew
up
in
Spain,
a
language
imposed
by
the
oppressor,
and
reminds
us
that
school
is
political
instrument
manipulated
official
language.
Emilee
Moore,
daughter
of
Italian
migrants
Australia,
explores
stigma
surrounding
indigenous
communities
Australia
their
right
to
live
learn
languages.
Together,
they
explore
how
gesture,
ways
dressing,
dance
movements
can
contribute
learning,
context
different
socio-cultural
dynamics
through
collaborative
activist
approaches
include
whole
semiotic
repertoire
students.
Язык: Английский