Monolingual ideologies versus spatial repertoires

Language beliefs and writing practices of an international STEM scholar

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20505995
AutoresValeriya Minakova (0000-0003-1888-0811, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, PA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Suresh Canagarajah (0000-0002-1292-2366, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, PA, USA)
Año2023
Volumen26
Número6
Páginas708-721
Fecha de publicación2023-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-0050 • E-ISSN: 1747-7522
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13670050.2020.1768210
OpenAlexW3035097306
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas21

This paper explores language beliefs and writing practices of an international scholar in Biochemistry working at a large U.S. research university. Although the participant articulated monolingual ideologies and a desire to become like a ‘native speaker,’ he did not consider advanced writing skills in English a prerequisite for publishing in English in his field. Through ‘talk-around-text’ (Lillis 2008) and visits to his laboratory, we examine what resources the participant deemed valuable in the process of producing a scientific article. Adopting a spatial orientation to writing (Canagarajah 2018a), we pay particular attention to the spatial repertoires that shaped his recent first-author publication. We bring out the tensions between his language ideologies and actual communicative practices and discuss the theoretical and pedagogical implications of our research. Ultimately, we argue that a spatial orientation to communication expands the notion of bilingualism by urging us to consider people’s actual creative practices of meaning-making in particular spaces rather than focus on isolated cognitive abilities

Ideology · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Writing process · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching