Sue Starfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Starfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Starfield |
| SIGNATURE | STARFIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4219-2760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Ōlē bābālē!!!’ – Exploring emotions and digital language practices in family language policy among Bengali transnational families
Aims and objectives: This study explores the role of emotions in heritage language (HL) practice within the context of networked family language policy (nFLP) among multilingual, transnational families through digital communication using multimodal (inter)action analysis (MIA). Methodology: The study employs a case study methodological approach involving Sigrid Norris’s MIA tools to understand how emotions are expressed and shared within multimod…
Researcher Reflexivity
Researcher reflexivity problematizes the traditional notion of the social science researcher as a neutral, objective outsider who exerts as little influence as possible on their research subjects. Reflexivity is a process of critical self‐reflection on one's biases, theoretical predispositions, and preferences that acknowledges that the researcher is part of the setting, context, and social phenomena they seek to understand and can be a means for…
Developing professional capacity for Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teaching in Vietnam
In this paper, we report on an international collaborative project designed to address the professional development needs of Vietnamese teachers for the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We collected data on a group of CLIL Vietnamese teachers and leaders through online interviews. Drawing on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), the paper illuminates how CLIL teachers, as the subject of the professional lea…
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Researching multilingually to rethink EMI policy and practices
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Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants
Family language policy (FLP) is increasingly recognised as a distinct domain of language policy concerned with the family as an arena of language policy formulation and implementation. While FLP is a relatively new research area, its conceptualisation of family and language practice requires re-examination due to social changes and technological developments, including the expansion of digital communication within families and the rise of globall…
Dialogic interactions and voice negotiations in thesis writing groups
English in the Contact Zone
English is closely tied to processes of globalization: a language of threat, desire, destruction and opportunity. [...] English is a translocal language, a language of fluidity and fixity that moves across, while becoming embedded in, the materiality of localities and social relations. English is bound up with transcultural flows, a language of imagined communities and refashioning identities. (Pennycook, 2007: 5–6) Alastair Pennycook’s words spe…
Change and continuity in thesis and dissertation writing
Conducting Research at Language Centers
The focus in this article is on research in language centers. Four center directors provide examples of the place of research in language centers and focus on how teachers and researchers work together to facilitate large action research projects. The first section describes a survey of instructors in U.S.‐based intensive English programs ( IEP s). The other sections then illustrate how research is encouraged and developed through clear framework…
English for Specific Purposes
Brian Paltridge reviews the development of genre in the field of English for specific purposes (ESP), discussing its early origins, its relation with discourse analysis, and what came to be known as the Create a Research Space model in ESP genre studies. The British Academic Spoken English corpus includes recordings of conference presentations, lectures and seminars, interviews with academic staff, as well as tagged transcripts of some of the dat…
Tesol Quarterly Research Guidelines
This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to submit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly . These guidelines include information about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics. The research methods discussed here are experimental research, survey research, ethnographic research, discour…
Extending the notion of ‘text’
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts poses many challenges for the academy, not the least of which is accounting for the possible relations which can hold between the written and creative/performed components of a doctoral thesis in these fields. This article proposes that the interrelations between the two components in doctoral submissions of this kind can be theorized as being on a continuum of interrelations, with a number of ke…
Historical Development of Language for Specific Purposes
Learning and teaching a language for specific rather than general purposes is an approach that began to develop after World War II and has shown continued growth since then, both theoretically and methodologically.
Researcher Reflexivity
At a recent conference on discourse, one of the keynote speakers remarked during her presentation that the reviewer of a paper she had submitted for publication in an academic journal had asked for “more reflexivity.” What could this throwaway comment have meant? This entry aims to help readers think about what researcher reflexivity might mean and what the reviewer might have had in mind.
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts
Doctoral degrees in the visual and performing arts are a fairly recent entrant in the research higher degree landscape in Australian universities. At the same time, a new kind of doctorate is evolving, a doctorate in which significant aspects of the claim for the doctoral characteristics of originality, mastery and contribution to the field are demonstrated through an original creative work. A substantial written contextualization is also general…
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts: writing academic English across cultures, edited by Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain, Bingley, UK, Emerald, 2011, xxi + 220 pp., £62.95 (hardback), ISB
I'm a Second-Language English Speaker
Student writing needs to be viewed in its insertion into a context defined by the existence of sociohistorically shaped, asymmetrical power relations. How novice student writers negotiate these complex political relationships and develop a sense of authority and identity in their academic essay writing has been underexplored in academic literacy research. In this article I examine the discursive production of success and failure through a discuss…
Covert language assessment in academic writing
In this article 'covert' language assessment refers to the implicit assessment of non-native speaking and writing that takes place when the focus of the assessment is on an examinee's understanding of an academic subject such as geography, history, biology or physics, and not on the examinee's language proficiency as such. Drawing on a larger study of assessment practices at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, the a…
Taking Back the Future
Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society.: Jim Cummins Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Factory Floor.: Tara Goldstein Critical Pedagogy: Notes From the Real World.: Joan Wink
Language, Cognition, and ESL Literacy. Cummins, EAP, and Academic Literacy
Tesol Quarterly Research Guidelines
This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to submit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly . These guidelines include information about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics. The research methods discussed here are experimental research, survey research, ethnographic research, discour…
Extending the notion of ‘text’
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts poses many challenges for the academy, not the least of which is accounting for the possible relations which can hold between the written and creative/performed components of a doctoral thesis in these fields. This article proposes that the interrelations between the two components in doctoral submissions of this kind can be theorized as being on a continuum of interrelations, with a number of ke…
I'm a Second-Language English Speaker
Student writing needs to be viewed in its insertion into a context defined by the existence of sociohistorically shaped, asymmetrical power relations. How novice student writers negotiate these complex political relationships and develop a sense of authority and identity in their academic essay writing has been underexplored in academic literacy research. In this article I examine the discursive production of success and failure through a discuss…
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Researching multilingually to rethink EMI policy and practices
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts: writing academic English across cultures, edited by Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain, Bingley, UK, Emerald, 2011, xxi + 220 pp., £62.95 (hardback), ISB
Language, Cognition, and ESL Literacy. Cummins, EAP, and Academic Literacy
Covert language assessment in academic writing
In this article 'covert' language assessment refers to the implicit assessment of non-native speaking and writing that takes place when the focus of the assessment is on an examinee's understanding of an academic subject such as geography, history, biology or physics, and not on the examinee's language proficiency as such. Drawing on a larger study of assessment practices at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, the a…
Taking Back the Future
Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society.: Jim Cummins Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Factory Floor.: Tara Goldstein Critical Pedagogy: Notes From the Real World.: Joan Wink
I'm a Second-Language English Speaker
Student writing needs to be viewed in its insertion into a context defined by the existence of sociohistorically shaped, asymmetrical power relations. How novice student writers negotiate these complex political relationships and develop a sense of authority and identity in their academic essay writing has been underexplored in academic literacy research. In this article I examine the discursive production of success and failure through a discuss…
Historical Development of Language for Specific Purposes
Learning and teaching a language for specific rather than general purposes is an approach that began to develop after World War II and has shown continued growth since then, both theoretically and methodologically.
Researcher Reflexivity
At a recent conference on discourse, one of the keynote speakers remarked during her presentation that the reviewer of a paper she had submitted for publication in an academic journal had asked for “more reflexivity.” What could this throwaway comment have meant? This entry aims to help readers think about what researcher reflexivity might mean and what the reviewer might have had in mind.
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts
Doctoral degrees in the visual and performing arts are a fairly recent entrant in the research higher degree landscape in Australian universities. At the same time, a new kind of doctorate is evolving, a doctorate in which significant aspects of the claim for the doctoral characteristics of originality, mastery and contribution to the field are demonstrated through an original creative work. A substantial written contextualization is also general…
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts
Voices, identities, negotiations and conflicts: writing academic English across cultures, edited by Phan Le Ha and Bradley Baurain, Bingley, UK, Emerald, 2011, xxi + 220 pp., £62.95 (hardback), ISB
Extending the notion of ‘text’
Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts poses many challenges for the academy, not the least of which is accounting for the possible relations which can hold between the written and creative/performed components of a doctoral thesis in these fields. This article proposes that the interrelations between the two components in doctoral submissions of this kind can be theorized as being on a continuum of interrelations, with a number of ke…
English for Specific Purposes
Brian Paltridge reviews the development of genre in the field of English for specific purposes (ESP), discussing its early origins, its relation with discourse analysis, and what came to be known as the Create a Research Space model in ESP genre studies. The British Academic Spoken English corpus includes recordings of conference presentations, lectures and seminars, interviews with academic staff, as well as tagged transcripts of some of the dat…
Tesol Quarterly Research Guidelines
This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to submit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly . These guidelines include information about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics. The research methods discussed here are experimental research, survey research, ethnographic research, discour…
Conducting Research at Language Centers
The focus in this article is on research in language centers. Four center directors provide examples of the place of research in language centers and focus on how teachers and researchers work together to facilitate large action research projects. The first section describes a survey of instructors in U.S.‐based intensive English programs ( IEP s). The other sections then illustrate how research is encouraged and developed through clear framework…
English in the Contact Zone
English is closely tied to processes of globalization: a language of threat, desire, destruction and opportunity. [...] English is a translocal language, a language of fluidity and fixity that moves across, while becoming embedded in, the materiality of localities and social relations. English is bound up with transcultural flows, a language of imagined communities and refashioning identities. (Pennycook, 2007: 5–6) Alastair Pennycook’s words spe…
Change and continuity in thesis and dissertation writing
Dialogic interactions and voice negotiations in thesis writing groups
Conceptualisation of family and language practice in family language policy research on migrants
Family language policy (FLP) is increasingly recognised as a distinct domain of language policy concerned with the family as an arena of language policy formulation and implementation. While FLP is a relatively new research area, its conceptualisation of family and language practice requires re-examination due to social changes and technological developments, including the expansion of digital communication within families and the rise of globall…
Developing professional capacity for Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teaching in Vietnam
In this paper, we report on an international collaborative project designed to address the professional development needs of Vietnamese teachers for the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We collected data on a group of CLIL Vietnamese teachers and leaders through online interviews. Drawing on Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), the paper illuminates how CLIL teachers, as the subject of the professional lea…
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Researching multilingually to rethink EMI policy and practices
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Researcher Reflexivity
Researcher reflexivity problematizes the traditional notion of the social science researcher as a neutral, objective outsider who exerts as little influence as possible on their research subjects. Reflexivity is a process of critical self‐reflection on one's biases, theoretical predispositions, and preferences that acknowledges that the researcher is part of the setting, context, and social phenomena they seek to understand and can be a means for…
‘Ōlē bābālē!!!’ – Exploring emotions and digital language practices in family language policy among Bengali transnational families
Aims and objectives: This study explores the role of emotions in heritage language (HL) practice within the context of networked family language policy (nFLP) among multilingual, transnational families through digital communication using multimodal (inter)action analysis (MIA). Methodology: The study employs a case study methodological approach involving Sigrid Norris’s MIA tools to understand how emotions are expressed and shared within multimod…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (8 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works)