T T T Nguyen
Biographic Data
| ID | 40461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T T T Nguyen |
| GIVEN NAMES | T T T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nguyen |
| SIGNATURE | NGUYEN T T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8005-4567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The workplace as a panoptic machine
This study examines linguistic surveillance as experienced by migrants in their workplace in Australia. Through the Foucauldian lens of surveillance and panopticism, it describes migrant employees’ reports on how their use of languages other than English is hierarchically observed and morally judged by their managers and co-workers. This linguistic surveillance operates within a mechanism of power, through which the surveiller (i.e. monitor) – in…
On Northern, Southern, and entangled cosmopolitanism
This article explores migrants’ English language ideologies, focusing on their views about preferred English varieties in intercultural communication in Australia, specifically, on their concerns about the use of (non)native or (non)standard English in different interactional settings. Drawing on the Southern theory, it re-explicates several concepts of cosmopolitanism in relation to English and suggests that people’s ideologies about language us…
“Your English Is . . .” Linguistic Bias and the Construction of Self and Other
Aims: This article examines linguistic bias as experienced by migrants of different language backgrounds in Australia, focusing on their construction of Self as shaped by the perpetrators of bias. Approach, data, and analysis: It draws on narrative interview data and applies a thematic analysis method, and makes use of the Sartrean conception of gaze in relation to the Self and the Other to understand how the participants make sense of their Self…
Translanguaging in research interviews
This article examines translanguaging in the context of research interviews, considering translanguaging as a social practice process. Drawing on metalinguistic data from a research project which focuses on Vietnamese international students in Taiwan, we suggest that in doing translanguaging, the participants reflexively transpositioned themselves from a Vietnamese language user to a range of other roles such as: English/Chinese language expert, …
Enacting Everyday Linguistic Citizenship
This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and negotiate their membership of different social units through language. Ethnographic interview data suggests t…
Language policing and the discourse of English normativity
This article examines language policing as experienced by Asian migrant youth in Australian schools and the discourse of English normativity underlying such policing practices. Drawing on a Foucauldian perspective and using interview data, it investigates how these young people's English competence and language manners were policed by the school system, their teachers and their peers. Findings suggest that the participants' certain levels of Engl…
The linguicized subject
In this article, we examine how migrants with a language other than English background are exposed to linguistic discrimination in relation to the English-only discourse of their daily life in Australia, labelling such discrimination as everyday linguicism. By engaging in a scholarly conversation on subjectivity, discourse, and power, we conceptualize and make use of the notion linguicized subjectivity as a thinking tool to interpret incidents of…
Linguistic colonialism impairs educational and mobility justice for minority students in Vietnam
Voicing decolonial dialogues
Minoritized indigenous teachers brought Bahnar into Vietnamese-based lessons. • The teachers orchestrated diverse voices in translanguaging. • The teachers’ centrifugal voice was related to minoritized indigenous students. • The teachers’ centripetal voice was related majority students and the mainstream. This study examines minoritized indigenous teachers’ translanguaging in the mainstream classroom in Vietnam. Through a Bakhtinian lens of voice…
Individual Language Policy as a Technology of the Self
Linguistic shaming, the discourse of (sub)standard English, and religiolinguistic ideologies in Indian media
This article examines linguistic shaming behaviors, focusing on the case of an Indian news media platform where newsreaders commented on and criticized a Muslim college lecturer for 'errors' in her handwritten resignation letter in English. We develop and bring together several concepts including (online) chronotopes, deindividuated voice, colonized/ing mind, and religiolinguistic ideologies as our theoretical lens to gain insights into the newsr…
Particularity in commonality
Drawing on interview data, this article examines the sense of ethnic and citizenship identities among a group of young ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Findings suggest that the youth highlighted their identity in three main forms (albeit flexibly): dual identities, citizenship identity, or ethnic identity, that reflects the ways they reproduced or resisted the Vietnamese government’s discourses about a common citizenship, and national identity and …
Youth’s individual language policy in shaping family-community citizenship
This study examines minority youth's daily language life in the family and ethnic community domains. It focuses on young ethnic minorities in a subtractive language context in Vietnam and how they construct their individual language policy through their language practices, beliefs and management in responding to language policies of the family and community of which they are members. Ethnographic interviews with college-age students were the main…
Motivation for learning Chinese in a study abroad context
This article examines Vietnamese students’ motivation for learning Mandarin Chinese during their study abroad in Taiwan and their construction of self in relation to this language learning motivation. A combination of several concepts of ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, instrumental motive, integrative motive, linguistic capital, and multiple self-aspects is used as a theoretical lens to gain insights into the students’ Chinese learning motivatio…
Teaching English through a Second Language to Linguistic Minority Students in EFL Contexts
Although English education is a topic of huge concern in TESOL research, the issue of teaching English through a second language to linguistic minority students in EFL contexts is often overlooked. The teaching of English in such a circumstance can be labeled as a form of double subtractive education . This article explores and provides illustrations of double subtractive education in Vietnam. Data were gathered through interviews or conversation…
English and Chinese language ideologies among Vietnamese students in Taiwan
This article examines English and Chinese language ideologies among Vietnamese students in Taiwan, focusing on their beliefs about the value or benefits of the languages and their self-construction as reflected in these beliefs. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with students of English-medium programs in Taiwanese universities. The students suggested a number of benefits of English and Mandarin Chinese, thereby associating the l…
Changing teacher learners’ language ideologies and pedagogical practices
The growing recognition of the varieties of Englishes constituting the world Englishes (WE) and related paradigms calls for replacing teachers’ existing language ideologies with WE-oriented beliefs and preparing them to teach with WE awareness. Since WE has yet to be part of mainstream education and teacher education, formal and informal interventions are used by educators and researchers for teacher learning and professional development. How eff…
Making the case for linguicism
In an effort to foreground the concept of linguicism, this article provides a critical review of the research literature on linguistic discrimination, focusing on common concepts and terms applied to characterise the issue. Giving particular attention to studies which directly consider discrimination based on language or linguistic factors, we identify three main groups of concepts and terms which are widely used, including (a) race-based concept…
Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
This study examines ethnic stereotypes toward majority and minority people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It contributes a more multidimensional perspective on ethnic stereotypes by exploring minority students' perspectives on how their ethnic group stereotypes Kinh majority people and how they are being stereotyped by the Kinh. Status and solidarity are used as the theoretical lens to gain insights into different stereotype traits and the …
Language choice of Vietnamese ethnic minority students in family and community interactions
This article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ experiences of language choice in communication with people of different ages and in different relations to them in their family and ethnolinguistic community. Concepts of power, solidarity and marked and unmarked choices are adapted to examine the students’ strategies of language choice. Interviews with a group of students are used as the main data source. Findings suggest that the mains…
Bilingual identity of ethnic minority students
This study examines bilingual identity of Vietnamese ethnic minority students as reflected in their language practices, language beliefs and language management. It also focuses on factors related to ethnic-cultural factors, social factors, interaction and investment that influence their bilingual identity. Data were obtained from multiple semi-structured interviews conducted with a group of college-age students. Findings suggest that the student…
Educational linguicism
Anglo-Sino social mobility? English and Chinese language aspirations of international English-medium students in a Chinese-dominant context
This article examines international English-medium students’ language aspirations in relation to social mobility as they are studying in a (Mandarin) Chinese-dominant context. It focuses specifically on Vietnamese students in Taiwan and their perspectives on how English and Chinese are related to their present and future life opportunities. Data were obtained from interviews with students from five different Taiwanese universities. Findings sugge…
Language and intercultural peer interactions
Bilingual education as ‘glocal’ capital
This article examines Vietnamese bilingual schools’ statements of educational outcomes on their websites. Data were gathered from websites of seven schools that were publicly accessible on the Internet. The analysis suggests that the schools purported to provide students with different explicit and implicit outcomes related to language, accreditation, extracurricular experience, qualification and virtue, whereby portraying themselves as providers…
Bilingualism as a resource
This article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language attitudes towards formal and informal language policies of the domains of school, church and ethnic community and towards their individual bilingualism. Multiple semi-structured interviews with eight college-age minority students are used as the main source of the data. Findings reveal that school language policy contributed to shaping the students’ view of “language-a…
Language attitudes, identity and L1 maintenance
Translanguaging as trans-identity
Subtractive Schooling and Identity
This article examines the impact of subtractive schooling, including language use in education, on the identity of a group of ethnic minority students in Central Highlands of Vietnam. Drawing on semistructured interview data, a deeper look is taken into the ways in which these students identify themselves with their languages, cultures, and social relations. Findings reveal that the subtractive power of the school language and the institutional m…
Making the case for linguicism
In an effort to foreground the concept of linguicism, this article provides a critical review of the research literature on linguistic discrimination, focusing on common concepts and terms applied to characterise the issue. Giving particular attention to studies which directly consider discrimination based on language or linguistic factors, we identify three main groups of concepts and terms which are widely used, including (a) race-based concept…
Language choice in peer interactions and the role of peers in minority language maintenance
Drawing on the positioning theory and the conditions for language use , this article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in interactions with their same-ethnicity and majority peers, focusing particularly on their communication motives underlying this choice. Findings suggest that in regulating their language alternation practices across peer groups in different contexts, the students shifted their participation status –…
Educational linguicism
Language practices across contact zones
This article examines the language practices of Vietnamese students in Taiwan in relation to their social connectedness across different contact zones. Data were obtained from interviews with Vietnamese students of English-medium programmes in Taiwanese universities. Findings suggest that the students, in managing their English and Chinese in interactions with people of diverse language backgrounds, shaped their social imaginary of their position…
Youth’s individual language policy in shaping family-community citizenship
This study examines minority youth's daily language life in the family and ethnic community domains. It focuses on young ethnic minorities in a subtractive language context in Vietnam and how they construct their individual language policy through their language practices, beliefs and management in responding to language policies of the family and community of which they are members. Ethnographic interviews with college-age students were the main…
Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
This study examines ethnic stereotypes toward majority and minority people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It contributes a more multidimensional perspective on ethnic stereotypes by exploring minority students' perspectives on how their ethnic group stereotypes Kinh majority people and how they are being stereotyped by the Kinh. Status and solidarity are used as the theoretical lens to gain insights into different stereotype traits and the …
Language and intercultural peer interactions
Motivation for learning Chinese in a study abroad context
This article examines Vietnamese students’ motivation for learning Mandarin Chinese during their study abroad in Taiwan and their construction of self in relation to this language learning motivation. A combination of several concepts of ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, instrumental motive, integrative motive, linguistic capital, and multiple self-aspects is used as a theoretical lens to gain insights into the students’ Chinese learning motivatio…
Teaching English through a Second Language to Linguistic Minority Students in EFL Contexts
Although English education is a topic of huge concern in TESOL research, the issue of teaching English through a second language to linguistic minority students in EFL contexts is often overlooked. The teaching of English in such a circumstance can be labeled as a form of double subtractive education . This article explores and provides illustrations of double subtractive education in Vietnam. Data were gathered through interviews or conversation…
Anglo-Sino social mobility? English and Chinese language aspirations of international English-medium students in a Chinese-dominant context
This article examines international English-medium students’ language aspirations in relation to social mobility as they are studying in a (Mandarin) Chinese-dominant context. It focuses specifically on Vietnamese students in Taiwan and their perspectives on how English and Chinese are related to their present and future life opportunities. Data were obtained from interviews with students from five different Taiwanese universities. Findings sugge…
Language attitudes, identity and L1 maintenance
Subtractive Schooling and Identity
This article examines the impact of subtractive schooling, including language use in education, on the identity of a group of ethnic minority students in Central Highlands of Vietnam. Drawing on semistructured interview data, a deeper look is taken into the ways in which these students identify themselves with their languages, cultures, and social relations. Findings reveal that the subtractive power of the school language and the institutional m…
Bilingualism as a resource
This article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language attitudes towards formal and informal language policies of the domains of school, church and ethnic community and towards their individual bilingualism. Multiple semi-structured interviews with eight college-age minority students are used as the main source of the data. Findings reveal that school language policy contributed to shaping the students’ view of “language-a…
Language choice, identity and social distance
Drawing on concepts such as convergence, divergence and maintenance associated with Communication Accommodation Theory, this article examines a group of Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in relation to their identity and social distance between them and their interlocutors. Our analysis suggests that the strategies of accommodation deployed by individuals can be related to common values/tendencies that are maintained by the gro…
Language practices across contact zones
This article examines the language practices of Vietnamese students in Taiwan in relation to their social connectedness across different contact zones. Data were obtained from interviews with Vietnamese students of English-medium programmes in Taiwanese universities. Findings suggest that the students, in managing their English and Chinese in interactions with people of diverse language backgrounds, shaped their social imaginary of their position…
Translanguaging as trans-identity
Bilingual education as ‘glocal’ capital
This article examines Vietnamese bilingual schools’ statements of educational outcomes on their websites. Data were gathered from websites of seven schools that were publicly accessible on the Internet. The analysis suggests that the schools purported to provide students with different explicit and implicit outcomes related to language, accreditation, extracurricular experience, qualification and virtue, whereby portraying themselves as providers…
Language choice in peer interactions and the role of peers in minority language maintenance
Drawing on the positioning theory and the conditions for language use , this article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ language choice in interactions with their same-ethnicity and majority peers, focusing particularly on their communication motives underlying this choice. Findings suggest that in regulating their language alternation practices across peer groups in different contexts, the students shifted their participation status –…
Language choice of Vietnamese ethnic minority students in family and community interactions
This article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students’ experiences of language choice in communication with people of different ages and in different relations to them in their family and ethnolinguistic community. Concepts of power, solidarity and marked and unmarked choices are adapted to examine the students’ strategies of language choice. Interviews with a group of students are used as the main data source. Findings suggest that the mains…
Bilingual identity of ethnic minority students
This study examines bilingual identity of Vietnamese ethnic minority students as reflected in their language practices, language beliefs and language management. It also focuses on factors related to ethnic-cultural factors, social factors, interaction and investment that influence their bilingual identity. Data were obtained from multiple semi-structured interviews conducted with a group of college-age students. Findings suggest that the student…
Educational linguicism
Anglo-Sino social mobility? English and Chinese language aspirations of international English-medium students in a Chinese-dominant context
This article examines international English-medium students’ language aspirations in relation to social mobility as they are studying in a (Mandarin) Chinese-dominant context. It focuses specifically on Vietnamese students in Taiwan and their perspectives on how English and Chinese are related to their present and future life opportunities. Data were obtained from interviews with students from five different Taiwanese universities. Findings sugge…
Language and intercultural peer interactions
English and Chinese language ideologies among Vietnamese students in Taiwan
This article examines English and Chinese language ideologies among Vietnamese students in Taiwan, focusing on their beliefs about the value or benefits of the languages and their self-construction as reflected in these beliefs. Data were obtained from semi-structured interviews with students of English-medium programs in Taiwanese universities. The students suggested a number of benefits of English and Mandarin Chinese, thereby associating the l…
Changing teacher learners’ language ideologies and pedagogical practices
The growing recognition of the varieties of Englishes constituting the world Englishes (WE) and related paradigms calls for replacing teachers’ existing language ideologies with WE-oriented beliefs and preparing them to teach with WE awareness. Since WE has yet to be part of mainstream education and teacher education, formal and informal interventions are used by educators and researchers for teacher learning and professional development. How eff…
Making the case for linguicism
In an effort to foreground the concept of linguicism, this article provides a critical review of the research literature on linguistic discrimination, focusing on common concepts and terms applied to characterise the issue. Giving particular attention to studies which directly consider discrimination based on language or linguistic factors, we identify three main groups of concepts and terms which are widely used, including (a) race-based concept…
Ethnic Stereotypes in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
This study examines ethnic stereotypes toward majority and minority people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It contributes a more multidimensional perspective on ethnic stereotypes by exploring minority students' perspectives on how their ethnic group stereotypes Kinh majority people and how they are being stereotyped by the Kinh. Status and solidarity are used as the theoretical lens to gain insights into different stereotype traits and the …
Particularity in commonality
Drawing on interview data, this article examines the sense of ethnic and citizenship identities among a group of young ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Findings suggest that the youth highlighted their identity in three main forms (albeit flexibly): dual identities, citizenship identity, or ethnic identity, that reflects the ways they reproduced or resisted the Vietnamese government’s discourses about a common citizenship, and national identity and …
Youth’s individual language policy in shaping family-community citizenship
This study examines minority youth's daily language life in the family and ethnic community domains. It focuses on young ethnic minorities in a subtractive language context in Vietnam and how they construct their individual language policy through their language practices, beliefs and management in responding to language policies of the family and community of which they are members. Ethnographic interviews with college-age students were the main…
Motivation for learning Chinese in a study abroad context
This article examines Vietnamese students’ motivation for learning Mandarin Chinese during their study abroad in Taiwan and their construction of self in relation to this language learning motivation. A combination of several concepts of ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, instrumental motive, integrative motive, linguistic capital, and multiple self-aspects is used as a theoretical lens to gain insights into the students’ Chinese learning motivatio…
Teaching English through a Second Language to Linguistic Minority Students in EFL Contexts
Although English education is a topic of huge concern in TESOL research, the issue of teaching English through a second language to linguistic minority students in EFL contexts is often overlooked. The teaching of English in such a circumstance can be labeled as a form of double subtractive education . This article explores and provides illustrations of double subtractive education in Vietnam. Data were gathered through interviews or conversation…
The linguicized subject
In this article, we examine how migrants with a language other than English background are exposed to linguistic discrimination in relation to the English-only discourse of their daily life in Australia, labelling such discrimination as everyday linguicism. By engaging in a scholarly conversation on subjectivity, discourse, and power, we conceptualize and make use of the notion linguicized subjectivity as a thinking tool to interpret incidents of…
Linguistic colonialism impairs educational and mobility justice for minority students in Vietnam
Voicing decolonial dialogues
Minoritized indigenous teachers brought Bahnar into Vietnamese-based lessons. • The teachers orchestrated diverse voices in translanguaging. • The teachers’ centrifugal voice was related to minoritized indigenous students. • The teachers’ centripetal voice was related majority students and the mainstream. This study examines minoritized indigenous teachers’ translanguaging in the mainstream classroom in Vietnam. Through a Bakhtinian lens of voice…
Individual Language Policy as a Technology of the Self
Multilingual Education and Policy (28 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Linguistics (22 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Vietnamese (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (13 works) · Ethnic group (12 works) · Pedagogy (12 works)