Sandra G Kouritzin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3449473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra G Kouritzin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kouritzin |
| SIGNATURE | KOURITZIN S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1112-8002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Revisiting radical diversality
This article addresses the political philosophy of a border position articulated by de Oliveira Andreotti (2011 de Oliveira Andreotti, V. 2011. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 9 (3–4): 381–397. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2011.605323[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Socie…
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
Mothering across colour lines
Conceptions of identity in multilingual multicultural societies still seem to be dominated by the perception that human beings are born into social locations and categories of ethnicity that are pre-existing. This fails to acknowledge the current reality for the progeny of interracial marriages, who may find themselves belonging neither to their father's nor to their mother's social location. While a strong emerging literature in hybridity consid…
Is knowing another language as important as knowing ‘core’ subjects like mathematics or science
This article explores, through interview data with 125 respondents in Canada, whether the study of foreign languages can be considered as important as the study of the ‘core’ STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) subjects in school and university curricula. Five categories of interviewees, including those involved and not involved in foreign language study, cited their perceptions that STEMM subject study would lead to g…
Linguistic Ecosystems for Foreign-Language Learning in Canada and Japan
We report on international research that compares linguistic ecosystems, that is, socially constructed public attitudes and ideologies concerned with foreign-language (FL) learning, in Canada and Japan. Analyzing responses to three interview questions from 125 interviews with five categories of respondent in each country, we suggest that there are a number of key differences between the linguistic ecosystems of the two countries, most notably tha…
Qualitative Research
Foreword: Forward Researching Carl Leggo 1.Introduction: Pivotal Moments Sandra Kouritzin, Nathalie Piquemal, and Renee Norman Part 1 The Doctoral Journey: Reflections on Disruptions and Interruptions 2. Finding the Stories, Telling the Story: Narrative in the Academy Marion Crook 3. Collaborative Inquiry as Illuminated Manuscript Michelle Forrest, Miriam Cooley, and Linda Wheeldon 4. Entangled Lives: Inquiring into the Negotiation of Relational …
An International Comparison of Socially Constructed Language Learning Motivation and Beliefs
In our global economy, it is important to understand all factors influencing successful language learning. A survey of more than 6,000 university students in Canada, Japan, and France revealed differences in language learning beliefs, attitudes, and motivations in the three countries. Learners in Canada and France exhibited primarily instrumental and integrative motivation, respectively, whereas learners from Japan displayed a different form, soc…
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
The British Columbia Literature 12 Curriculum and I
A critique of the prescribed Literature 12 curriculum for British Columbia teachers, this article is a life-history narrative juxtaposed against my own literary education, examining how my lived experiences were reflected and reinforced in the Literature 12 curriculum, and in the literary canons of both high school and university English teaching—and vice versa. After first introducing the curriculum documents and the required textbook for the te…
The Personal, Practical, and Professional Rewards of Teaching MA-Tesol Courses Online
In the beginning I felt whiney and miserable about the on-line environment. As the course progressed, I felt whiney and miserable about classrooms. I like the more equal relationships we've developed here. I'll miss you guys. I want to keep the course posted for a while so that we can still communicate. Sandie (April 10, 2001, 22:05)
Face[t]s of First Language Loss
Bringing Life to Research
Despite its potential, life history methodology has seldom been used in TESL research. This article first defines what is meant by life history research methodology, and then examines how it might benefit our research in TESL. Answering the question, What are the benefits of life history research? the author examines how life histories in other fields and in her own research have shifted focus from the extraordinary to the mundane, and from the u…
Immigrant Mothers Redefine Access to ESL classes
Studies examining the accessibility of ESL classes for adults have tended to look at factors such as time, resource, economic, or geographic constraints, thereby conflating access with availability. This article argues that access is a much more complex notion, one perhaps more personal, and less amenable to solution, than previously assumed. Access needs to be understood within and against the socially constructed identities and roles of the lea…
A Mother's Tongue
This commentary significantly departs from the standard written form for contributions to The Forum over the years (i.e., 1992-1999). While commenting on one aspect of TESOL that is of particular professional and personal interest to me-the development and maintenance of minority Lls during childhood second language acquisition (e.g., Kouritzin, 1999, in press)-I present an argument for the importance of continued use of the familial heritage lan…
Face[t]s of First Language Loss
This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways. First, it provides insight into the process of language loss and the factors contributing to it. Second, it attempts to define, from an insider perspective, what it means to "lose" a language. Third, it analyzes the perceived consequences of first language loss in terms of social, academic, emotional, and econom…
Re-thinking second language instruction, autonomy and technology
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
Bringing Life to Research
Despite its potential, life history methodology has seldom been used in TESL research. This article first defines what is meant by life history research methodology, and then examines how it might benefit our research in TESL. Answering the question, What are the benefits of life history research? the author examines how life histories in other fields and in her own research have shifted focus from the extraordinary to the mundane, and from the u…
A Mother's Tongue
This commentary significantly departs from the standard written form for contributions to The Forum over the years (i.e., 1992-1999). While commenting on one aspect of TESOL that is of particular professional and personal interest to me-the development and maintenance of minority Lls during childhood second language acquisition (e.g., Kouritzin, 1999, in press)-I present an argument for the importance of continued use of the familial heritage lan…
An International Comparison of Socially Constructed Language Learning Motivation and Beliefs
In our global economy, it is important to understand all factors influencing successful language learning. A survey of more than 6,000 university students in Canada, Japan, and France revealed differences in language learning beliefs, attitudes, and motivations in the three countries. Learners in Canada and France exhibited primarily instrumental and integrative motivation, respectively, whereas learners from Japan displayed a different form, soc…
Immigrant Mothers Redefine Access to ESL classes
Studies examining the accessibility of ESL classes for adults have tended to look at factors such as time, resource, economic, or geographic constraints, thereby conflating access with availability. This article argues that access is a much more complex notion, one perhaps more personal, and less amenable to solution, than previously assumed. Access needs to be understood within and against the socially constructed identities and roles of the lea…
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Mothering across colour lines
Conceptions of identity in multilingual multicultural societies still seem to be dominated by the perception that human beings are born into social locations and categories of ethnicity that are pre-existing. This fails to acknowledge the current reality for the progeny of interracial marriages, who may find themselves belonging neither to their father's nor to their mother's social location. While a strong emerging literature in hybridity consid…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Revisiting radical diversality
This article addresses the political philosophy of a border position articulated by de Oliveira Andreotti (2011 de Oliveira Andreotti, V. 2011. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 9 (3–4): 381–397. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2011.605323[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Socie…
Is knowing another language as important as knowing ‘core’ subjects like mathematics or science
This article explores, through interview data with 125 respondents in Canada, whether the study of foreign languages can be considered as important as the study of the ‘core’ STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) subjects in school and university curricula. Five categories of interviewees, including those involved and not involved in foreign language study, cited their perceptions that STEMM subject study would lead to g…
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
Re-thinking second language instruction, autonomy and technology
Face[t]s of First Language Loss
This book contributes to the understanding of first-language loss in both immigrant and indigenous communities in (at least) three ways. First, it provides insight into the process of language loss and the factors contributing to it. Second, it attempts to define, from an insider perspective, what it means to "lose" a language. Third, it analyzes the perceived consequences of first language loss in terms of social, academic, emotional, and econom…
Bringing Life to Research
Despite its potential, life history methodology has seldom been used in TESL research. This article first defines what is meant by life history research methodology, and then examines how it might benefit our research in TESL. Answering the question, What are the benefits of life history research? the author examines how life histories in other fields and in her own research have shifted focus from the extraordinary to the mundane, and from the u…
Immigrant Mothers Redefine Access to ESL classes
Studies examining the accessibility of ESL classes for adults have tended to look at factors such as time, resource, economic, or geographic constraints, thereby conflating access with availability. This article argues that access is a much more complex notion, one perhaps more personal, and less amenable to solution, than previously assumed. Access needs to be understood within and against the socially constructed identities and roles of the lea…
A Mother's Tongue
This commentary significantly departs from the standard written form for contributions to The Forum over the years (i.e., 1992-1999). While commenting on one aspect of TESOL that is of particular professional and personal interest to me-the development and maintenance of minority Lls during childhood second language acquisition (e.g., Kouritzin, 1999, in press)-I present an argument for the importance of continued use of the familial heritage lan…
Face[t]s of First Language Loss
The Personal, Practical, and Professional Rewards of Teaching MA-Tesol Courses Online
In the beginning I felt whiney and miserable about the on-line environment. As the course progressed, I felt whiney and miserable about classrooms. I like the more equal relationships we've developed here. I'll miss you guys. I want to keep the course posted for a while so that we can still communicate. Sandie (April 10, 2001, 22:05)
The British Columbia Literature 12 Curriculum and I
A critique of the prescribed Literature 12 curriculum for British Columbia teachers, this article is a life-history narrative juxtaposed against my own literary education, examining how my lived experiences were reflected and reinforced in the Literature 12 curriculum, and in the literary canons of both high school and university English teaching—and vice versa. After first introducing the curriculum documents and the required textbook for the te…
Pre-service Teacher Beliefs About Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
This paper reports on the results of survey data examining English-speaking preservice teachers' (PSTs) attitudes toward and beliefs about foreign language teaching and learning. Part of a larger international study aimed at answering the research question: ‘What are the national, social, economic, and institutional “socialsuggestive norms” (Miele, 1982) that encourage (or discourage) foreign language learning?’, this survey was administered to P…
Qualitative Research
Foreword: Forward Researching Carl Leggo 1.Introduction: Pivotal Moments Sandra Kouritzin, Nathalie Piquemal, and Renee Norman Part 1 The Doctoral Journey: Reflections on Disruptions and Interruptions 2. Finding the Stories, Telling the Story: Narrative in the Academy Marion Crook 3. Collaborative Inquiry as Illuminated Manuscript Michelle Forrest, Miriam Cooley, and Linda Wheeldon 4. Entangled Lives: Inquiring into the Negotiation of Relational …
An International Comparison of Socially Constructed Language Learning Motivation and Beliefs
In our global economy, it is important to understand all factors influencing successful language learning. A survey of more than 6,000 university students in Canada, Japan, and France revealed differences in language learning beliefs, attitudes, and motivations in the three countries. Learners in Canada and France exhibited primarily instrumental and integrative motivation, respectively, whereas learners from Japan displayed a different form, soc…
Linguistic Ecosystems for Foreign-Language Learning in Canada and Japan
We report on international research that compares linguistic ecosystems, that is, socially constructed public attitudes and ideologies concerned with foreign-language (FL) learning, in Canada and Japan. Analyzing responses to three interview questions from 125 interviews with five categories of respondent in each country, we suggest that there are a number of key differences between the linguistic ecosystems of the two countries, most notably tha…
Is knowing another language as important as knowing ‘core’ subjects like mathematics or science
This article explores, through interview data with 125 respondents in Canada, whether the study of foreign languages can be considered as important as the study of the ‘core’ STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) subjects in school and university curricula. Five categories of interviewees, including those involved and not involved in foreign language study, cited their perceptions that STEMM subject study would lead to g…
Mothering across colour lines
Conceptions of identity in multilingual multicultural societies still seem to be dominated by the perception that human beings are born into social locations and categories of ethnicity that are pre-existing. This fails to acknowledge the current reality for the progeny of interracial marriages, who may find themselves belonging neither to their father's nor to their mother's social location. While a strong emerging literature in hybridity consid…
Toward a non-extractive research ethics for transcultural, translingual research
It is widely acknowledged that research ethics is a controversial notion in cross-linguistic, crosscultural research. We suggest that most ethical issues in research arise from four major issues: (1) ethics is not adequately defined, theoretically or practically; (2) researchers have failed to make a distinction in the types of communities they study; (3) insider research versus outsider research has been insufficiently considered; and (4) consen…
Revisiting radical diversality
This article addresses the political philosophy of a border position articulated by de Oliveira Andreotti (2011 de Oliveira Andreotti, V. 2011. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 9 (3–4): 381–397. doi: 10.1080/14767724.2011.605323[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]. “(Towards) Decoloniality and Diversality in Global Citizenship Education.” Globalisation, Socie…
Identities of Resignation
We suggest that while Indigenous languages are threatened by capitalist and neoliberal encroachments, responses from applied linguists in the academy can be misguided. To make our argument, we must first define neoliberalism, and examine how the broader neoliberal discourses of choice, competition and the free market have percolated and distilled into local Indigenous language contexts, impacting languages, cultures and identities. We ask ourselv…
Neoliberal Sleight of Hand in a University Strategic Plan
This research analyzed the University of Manitoba (UofM) Strategic Plan to both quantify the occurrence of specific keywords and make inferences about the purpose, messages, and effects being communicated by those keywords. In the first section of this paper, we provide an overview of the historical development and purpose of the neoliberal university. Second, we engage with content and critical discourse analysis to understand how academic work …
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (9 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works)