Peter Sayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 372794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayer |
| SIGNATURE | SAYER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1468-6256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethnography in Tesol
Contemporary research in TESOL spans a range of ethnographic approaches from ethnography of communication and language socialization to narrative inquiry, critical ethnography, autoethnography, and digital ethnography. The foci of ethnographic work have evolved from earlier work focusing on interactional approaches that examined how L2 learners acquire the sociolinguistic rules of language use to studies centering on the identities of learners an…
Whose English counts? Language ideologies in Turkish Tesol teacher education
This mixed methods study examines how English teacher candidates in Türkiye construct teacher linguistic legitimacy around English accents through Global Englishes and raciolinguistic perspectives. A verbal-guise task (N = 59) and semi-structured interviews (n = 5) showed a consistent hierarchy. Standardised North American and British Englishes and German English were rated higher, while Turkish and Arabic Englishes were rated lower. Quantitative…
From Linguistic Ecology to Natural Ecology: The linguistic landscape of climate change in Indonesia
This paper examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of climate change in Indonesia and the lack thereof. Based on an analysis of three Indonesian cityscapes (2023–2024), i.e. Semarang, Yogyakarta and Jakarta, the physical cityscapes were overwhelmingly saturated with political campaign posters and billboards, with virtually no signage indexing climate change or ecological urgency. To move beyond this impasse, our study expands the methodological bo…
Socioeconomic status and linguistic diversity in shaping multilingualism in the U.S. Midwest: A linguistic landscape study
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children
Transgressive translanguaging: Theorizing the corriente
Translanguaging in classrooms opens spaces for multilingual students to engage in learning across the full range of their linguistic repertoire. We argue that one result of translanguaging pedagogy is that it can transform the talk-for-learning in the classroom and create a corriente or flow of ideas that is more free and less constrained than traditional classroom interactional patterns. However, what has been lacking in the translanguaging lite…
Examining social class and multilingualism through the Linguistic Landscape: A methodological proposal
This article presents a methodological proposal for using the Linguistic Landscape (LL) to examine the intersection of multilingualism and social class in urban settings. The article draws from a study that considered how patterns of linguistic diversity in public signage in a mid-sized US city mapped onto socioeconomic levels. The main innovation for LL methodology is the study’s use of census data and geographic information system (GIS) to incr…
Qualitative Sociolinguistics Research
Qualitative sociolinguistics research (QSR) is an approach that focuses on the ways in which people in communities use language to accomplish things in the world, and how they represent themselves to the world. QSR, in contrast to quantitative research, seeks to examine and explain the richness of language use in particular contexts with an overall aim of understanding the relationships between language and the social world. As such, qualitative …
Language Policy and Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical, and Sociolinguistic Approaches
The hidden curriculum of work in English language education: Neoliberalism and early English programs in public schooling
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes one case of a recent early English program, the national program in Mexico, and argues that it is a r…
Discourses of White Nationalism and Xenophobia in the United States and Their Effect on Tesol Professionals in Mexico
White nationalism has emerged in the mainstream of U.S. political discourse, and restricting all forms of immigration has become a central focus of isolationist, “America First” policies. In August 2017, TESOL International released its Position Statement on Immigration Policy and Reform in the United States . The authors respond to the position statement and address Mexican English teachers’ views towards the immigration debate in the United Sta…
Introduction: Social class/socioeconomic status and young learners of English as a global language
Differentiated Linguistic Strategies of Bilingual Professionals on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The authors present three distinct cases of English-Spanish bilinguals on the U.S.-Mexico border to illustrate how legitimate and authentic language use functions as forms of symbolic capital (P. Bourdieu, 1991 Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and symbolic power. Cambridge, MA: Polity. [Google Scholar]). Language practices in the occupational domain exemplify how varieties of English and Spanish come into contact, are negotiated, and strategically u…
Developing a Collaborative Qualitative Research Project Across Borders: Issues and Dilemmas
International collaborative research often refers to collaboration among the researchers and the participants. Few studies investigate the collaborative process among the researchers themselves. Assumptions about the qualitative research process, institutional requirements, and even epistemological orientations, are pervasive. Our experience conducting an empirical research study as a collaborative effort amongst a research team in Mexico and the…
Does English really open doors? Social class and English teaching in public primary schools in Mexico
Expanding global language education in public primary schools: The national English programme in Mexico
The paper examines the recent national programme of English language instruction in the Mexican public primary schools, called the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB). The programme, initiated in 2009 by the Ministry of Education as part of the national curriculum, represents the largest expansion of English teaching in Mexico's history, entailing the hiring of 98,000 new English teachers. It is the result of an explicit educa…
English language teaching in public primary schools in Mexico: The practices and challenges of implementing a national language education program
Over the past 15 years, many state governments in Mexico have initiated local programs to introduce English at the primary school level. In 2009, the Mexican Ministry of Education formalized the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB) as part of the national curriculum, based on the argument that increasing the number of English speakers in Mexico is necessary for the country to be globally competitive and to follow the trend in o…
The Mexican sports car controversy: An appraisal analysis of BBC's Top Gear and the reproduction of nationalism and racism through humor
Translanguaging, TexMex, and Bilingual Pedagogy: Emergent Bilinguals Learning Through the Vernacular
This article presents an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages. From the premise that TESOL educators can benefit from a fuller understanding of students' linguistic repertoires, the study describes language practices in a second‐grade classroom in a transitional bilingual education program in a well‐established Mexican American community in Sa…
Qualitative Sociolinguistics Research
Qualitative sociolinguistics research (QSR) is an approach to sociolinguistic research that focuses on the ways in which people in communities use language to accomplish things in the world, and how they represent themselves to the world.
Teaching culture beyond nationalist boundaries: National identities, stereotyping, and culture in language education
The authors take a critical language pedagogy approach to examining a 2011 controversy over disparaging comments towards Mexicans made by commentators of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s automotive show Top Gear. In particular, they focus on the characterization of groups and individuals according to their nationality and examine the ubiquity of nationalism and its ability to shape our conception of culture and in turn our understandings of…
Demystifying Language Mixing: Spanglish in School
This article poses the question of how educators can put into practice the valorization of the vernacular and its use as a pedagogical resource. It provides a critical sociolinguistic orientation toward the use of Spanglish in schools. It gives a short descriptive overview of the linguistic features of Spanglish and responds to some of the misguided notions about language mixing. The article then looks at the use of Spanglish among young bilingua…
Classroom Interactions as Cross‐Cultural Encounters: Native Speakers in EFL Lessons
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities, edited by Ana Celia Zentella
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities.Ana Celia Zentella (editor), New York: Teachers College Press, and Covina, CA: California Association of Bilingual Education, 2005, 213 pages, US$23.95 (paper)
Translanguaging, TexMex, and Bilingual Pedagogy: Emergent Bilinguals Learning Through the Vernacular
This article presents an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages. From the premise that TESOL educators can benefit from a fuller understanding of students' linguistic repertoires, the study describes language practices in a second‐grade classroom in a transitional bilingual education program in a well‐established Mexican American community in Sa…
Does English really open doors? Social class and English teaching in public primary schools in Mexico
Introduction: Social class/socioeconomic status and young learners of English as a global language
Demystifying Language Mixing: Spanglish in School
This article poses the question of how educators can put into practice the valorization of the vernacular and its use as a pedagogical resource. It provides a critical sociolinguistic orientation toward the use of Spanglish in schools. It gives a short descriptive overview of the linguistic features of Spanglish and responds to some of the misguided notions about language mixing. The article then looks at the use of Spanglish among young bilingua…
English language teaching in public primary schools in Mexico: The practices and challenges of implementing a national language education program
Over the past 15 years, many state governments in Mexico have initiated local programs to introduce English at the primary school level. In 2009, the Mexican Ministry of Education formalized the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB) as part of the national curriculum, based on the argument that increasing the number of English speakers in Mexico is necessary for the country to be globally competitive and to follow the trend in o…
Discourses of White Nationalism and Xenophobia in the United States and Their Effect on Tesol Professionals in Mexico
White nationalism has emerged in the mainstream of U.S. political discourse, and restricting all forms of immigration has become a central focus of isolationist, “America First” policies. In August 2017, TESOL International released its Position Statement on Immigration Policy and Reform in the United States . The authors respond to the position statement and address Mexican English teachers’ views towards the immigration debate in the United Sta…
Expanding global language education in public primary schools: The national English programme in Mexico
The paper examines the recent national programme of English language instruction in the Mexican public primary schools, called the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB). The programme, initiated in 2009 by the Ministry of Education as part of the national curriculum, represents the largest expansion of English teaching in Mexico's history, entailing the hiring of 98,000 new English teachers. It is the result of an explicit educa…
The Mexican sports car controversy: An appraisal analysis of BBC's Top Gear and the reproduction of nationalism and racism through humor
Developing a Collaborative Qualitative Research Project Across Borders: Issues and Dilemmas
International collaborative research often refers to collaboration among the researchers and the participants. Few studies investigate the collaborative process among the researchers themselves. Assumptions about the qualitative research process, institutional requirements, and even epistemological orientations, are pervasive. Our experience conducting an empirical research study as a collaborative effort amongst a research team in Mexico and the…
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities, edited by Ana Celia Zentella
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities.Ana Celia Zentella (editor), New York: Teachers College Press, and Covina, CA: California Association of Bilingual Education, 2005, 213 pages, US$23.95 (paper)
Demystifying Language Mixing: Spanglish in School
This article poses the question of how educators can put into practice the valorization of the vernacular and its use as a pedagogical resource. It provides a critical sociolinguistic orientation toward the use of Spanglish in schools. It gives a short descriptive overview of the linguistic features of Spanglish and responds to some of the misguided notions about language mixing. The article then looks at the use of Spanglish among young bilingua…
Classroom Interactions as Cross‐Cultural Encounters: Native Speakers in EFL Lessons
Qualitative Sociolinguistics Research
Qualitative sociolinguistics research (QSR) is an approach to sociolinguistic research that focuses on the ways in which people in communities use language to accomplish things in the world, and how they represent themselves to the world.
Teaching culture beyond nationalist boundaries: National identities, stereotyping, and culture in language education
The authors take a critical language pedagogy approach to examining a 2011 controversy over disparaging comments towards Mexicans made by commentators of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s automotive show Top Gear. In particular, they focus on the characterization of groups and individuals according to their nationality and examine the ubiquity of nationalism and its ability to shape our conception of culture and in turn our understandings of…
The Mexican sports car controversy: An appraisal analysis of BBC's Top Gear and the reproduction of nationalism and racism through humor
Translanguaging, TexMex, and Bilingual Pedagogy: Emergent Bilinguals Learning Through the Vernacular
This article presents an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages. From the premise that TESOL educators can benefit from a fuller understanding of students' linguistic repertoires, the study describes language practices in a second‐grade classroom in a transitional bilingual education program in a well‐established Mexican American community in Sa…
English language teaching in public primary schools in Mexico: The practices and challenges of implementing a national language education program
Over the past 15 years, many state governments in Mexico have initiated local programs to introduce English at the primary school level. In 2009, the Mexican Ministry of Education formalized the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB) as part of the national curriculum, based on the argument that increasing the number of English speakers in Mexico is necessary for the country to be globally competitive and to follow the trend in o…
Expanding global language education in public primary schools: The national English programme in Mexico
The paper examines the recent national programme of English language instruction in the Mexican public primary schools, called the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica (PNIEB). The programme, initiated in 2009 by the Ministry of Education as part of the national curriculum, represents the largest expansion of English teaching in Mexico's history, entailing the hiring of 98,000 new English teachers. It is the result of an explicit educa…
Differentiated Linguistic Strategies of Bilingual Professionals on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The authors present three distinct cases of English-Spanish bilinguals on the U.S.-Mexico border to illustrate how legitimate and authentic language use functions as forms of symbolic capital (P. Bourdieu, 1991 Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and symbolic power. Cambridge, MA: Polity. [Google Scholar]). Language practices in the occupational domain exemplify how varieties of English and Spanish come into contact, are negotiated, and strategically u…
Developing a Collaborative Qualitative Research Project Across Borders: Issues and Dilemmas
International collaborative research often refers to collaboration among the researchers and the participants. Few studies investigate the collaborative process among the researchers themselves. Assumptions about the qualitative research process, institutional requirements, and even epistemological orientations, are pervasive. Our experience conducting an empirical research study as a collaborative effort amongst a research team in Mexico and the…
Does English really open doors? Social class and English teaching in public primary schools in Mexico
Introduction: Social class/socioeconomic status and young learners of English as a global language
The hidden curriculum of work in English language education: Neoliberalism and early English programs in public schooling
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes one case of a recent early English program, the national program in Mexico, and argues that it is a r…
Discourses of White Nationalism and Xenophobia in the United States and Their Effect on Tesol Professionals in Mexico
White nationalism has emerged in the mainstream of U.S. political discourse, and restricting all forms of immigration has become a central focus of isolationist, “America First” policies. In August 2017, TESOL International released its Position Statement on Immigration Policy and Reform in the United States . The authors respond to the position statement and address Mexican English teachers’ views towards the immigration debate in the United Sta…
Qualitative Sociolinguistics Research
Qualitative sociolinguistics research (QSR) is an approach that focuses on the ways in which people in communities use language to accomplish things in the world, and how they represent themselves to the world. QSR, in contrast to quantitative research, seeks to examine and explain the richness of language use in particular contexts with an overall aim of understanding the relationships between language and the social world. As such, qualitative …
Language Policy and Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical, and Sociolinguistic Approaches
Examining social class and multilingualism through the Linguistic Landscape: A methodological proposal
This article presents a methodological proposal for using the Linguistic Landscape (LL) to examine the intersection of multilingualism and social class in urban settings. The article draws from a study that considered how patterns of linguistic diversity in public signage in a mid-sized US city mapped onto socioeconomic levels. The main innovation for LL methodology is the study’s use of census data and geographic information system (GIS) to incr…
Transgressive translanguaging: Theorizing the corriente
Translanguaging in classrooms opens spaces for multilingual students to engage in learning across the full range of their linguistic repertoire. We argue that one result of translanguaging pedagogy is that it can transform the talk-for-learning in the classroom and create a corriente or flow of ideas that is more free and less constrained than traditional classroom interactional patterns. However, what has been lacking in the translanguaging lite…
Socioeconomic status and linguistic diversity in shaping multilingualism in the U.S. Midwest: A linguistic landscape study
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children
Ethnography in Tesol
Contemporary research in TESOL spans a range of ethnographic approaches from ethnography of communication and language socialization to narrative inquiry, critical ethnography, autoethnography, and digital ethnography. The foci of ethnographic work have evolved from earlier work focusing on interactional approaches that examined how L2 learners acquire the sociolinguistic rules of language use to studies centering on the identities of learners an…
Whose English counts? Language ideologies in Turkish Tesol teacher education
This mixed methods study examines how English teacher candidates in Türkiye construct teacher linguistic legitimacy around English accents through Global Englishes and raciolinguistic perspectives. A verbal-guise task (N = 59) and semi-structured interviews (n = 5) showed a consistent hierarchy. Standardised North American and British Englishes and German English were rated higher, while Turkish and Arabic Englishes were rated lower. Quantitative…
From Linguistic Ecology to Natural Ecology: The linguistic landscape of climate change in Indonesia
This paper examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of climate change in Indonesia and the lack thereof. Based on an analysis of three Indonesian cityscapes (2023–2024), i.e. Semarang, Yogyakarta and Jakarta, the physical cityscapes were overwhelmingly saturated with political campaign posters and billboards, with virtually no signage indexing climate change or ecological urgency. To move beyond this impasse, our study expands the methodological bo…
Multilingual Education and Policy (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (16 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Bilingual education (5 works)