Stef Slembrouck
Biographic Data
| ID | 655938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stef Slembrouck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stef |
| FAMILY NAME | Slembrouck |
| SIGNATURE | SLEMBROUCK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1978-9430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 384 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
English-Medium Instruction in International Bio-Science Engineering Programs in Vietnam
This study analyzes how English-medium instruction (EMI) content lecturers in Vietnam navigate opportunities and challenges of incentivization, institutional support, and disciplinary autonomy in a context of transnational academic expansion. It reports on interview data with bio-engineering lecturers from five universities. Findings show that, despite the lecturers’ understanding of the institutional importance of prestigious international progr…
Participant role shifting in minority language institutional interactions
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of collecting and disseminating publicly relevant health information from and to lay audiences to combat global health crises. In Flanders, Belgium, reaching linguistic minority groups within this context largely depended on government-mandated contact tracing through telephone interactions, which was initially put in place to contain the level of outbreak, but was gradually tasked with relayin…
The EMI content lecturer as a street-level bureaucrat
The field of English as a Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) research in tertiary education is undergoing a context-specific turn, focusing attention on how the official medium of instruction interacts with local languages, as well as the multi-faceted interplay between national and/or institutional language policies and classroom practice. This article reports on findings from linguistic ethnographic fieldwork at a Belgian higher education institution:…
The dynamics of multilingual assessment
This study examines the impact of linguistic accommodations on the science performance of multilingual pupils. In a randomized controlled trial conducted in Flanders (Belgium), pupils aged 9–12 were assigned to one of three conditions: a control group taking a science test in the language of schooling ( n = 64), a group receiving a written bilingual test in both the pupils’ L1 and language of schooling ( n = 64), and a group with a written biling…
Professional Academic Development Over Here and Over There
This report develops interrelated perspectives on North–South collaboration, with a particular focus on joint PhD research. A specific – but perhaps atypical – case will be presented, in which the doctoral student is located and collects data in the Global North but is co-advised by supervisors from both Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) in the context of a strategic inter-institutional partnership b…
The various guises of translanguaging and its theoretical airstrip
This paper addresses the necessary complementarity between a translanguaging and named language-perspective by critically examining risks of ‘overshooting’ when a translanguaging view is theoretically posited as the ultimately superior (sociolinguistic) theory of language use and learning in today’s multilingual world
Covering Blue Voices
Many musicologists and researchers of popular music have recently stressed the omnipresence of covers in today’s music industry. In the sociolinguistics of music, however, studio-recorded covers and their potential differences from ‘original’ compositions have certainly been acknowledged in passing, but very few sociolinguists concerned with the study of song seem to have systematically explored how language use may differ in such re-imagined mus…
The globalization of local indexicalities through music
This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African‐American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live‐performed blues music: /aɪ/ monophthongization, post‐consonantal word‐final /t/ deletion, post‐conso…
Covid-19 telephone contact tracing in Flanders as a “contested” new genre of conversation
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium, most COVID-19-related information was communicated to the public through mainstream media such as newspaper outlets, television, and radio. These media had substantial influence over which information was (widely) distributed and how this information was framed, subsequently shaping citizens' interpretations of matters concerning the pandemic. This chapter considers one of the government's endeavors to con…
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
The Relationship Between Cognitive-Linguistic Task Difficulty and L1-L2 Interaction for Academic Listening Comprehension in Turkish–dutch Emergent Bilinguals
This study investigated the relationship between the level of cognitive-linguistic difficulty of task input and the size of the cross-linguistic relationship for academic listening comprehension in emergent bilinguals. It was theoretically motivated by task-dependent cross-linguistic interaction frameworks. We hypothesized that task item sets that involve a higher level of cognitive-linguistic difficulty, drawing on a number of sources of item di…
Class and parenting in accounts of child protection
In this paper, the idea of ethnograpies of hegemony is taken up as a reflexive orientation in research which addresses the complexity of forms of domination in late modern society also by trying to come to terms with the situatednes of interactionally-established interview data. Following a number of methodological remarks on the establishment of a ‘native point of view’ as well as a number of observations on the data trajectories (tribulations a…
The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilinguals
This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and Farver's language independence hypothesis. We assessed 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual children attending Dutc…
Bureaucracy
The study of bureaucracy has in many respects been defined negatively from the start, perhaps as the ultimate example of an uneasy match between the individual and (state) institution. While noting how it is easy for research to be “trapped” within the “moralizing” gap between modernist ideal, failing practice, and self‐sustaining institution, this entry addresses questions of scope, focus, and key concepts for the linguistic anthropological stud…
Advice Giving, Managing Interruptions and the Construction of ‘Teachable Moments’
The focus of this article is on home visiting in child welfare, an activity which involves a publicly accountable performance of professional tasks in a private space.We specifically examine a recording of a visit by a home learning worker to a mother and her three-year-old child with special needs.In the first part of the article, sequential analysis is combined with an understanding of frame and participant alignment (Goffman).We note how the c…
Assessment accommodations for multilingual learners
A challenge in designing tests is ensuring fairness for all test takers. Pupils who are not yet sufficiently proficient in the language of schooling taking a test that was designed for native speakers is unfair, since they will not be able to demonstrate their true abilities (Abedi, J., and C. Lord. 2001. “The Language Factor in Mathematics Tests.” Applied Measurement in Education 14 (3): 219–234.). Multilingual pupils should be provided with acc…
What can technology offer to linguistically diverse classrooms? Using multilingual content in a computer-based learning environment for primary education
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) have the potential to integrate the linguistic diversity present in classrooms as a resourceful tool in pupils’ learning process. Particularly for pupils who speak a language at home other than the language which is used at school, more understanding is needed on how CBLEs offering multilingual content can assist them. With this study, we aim to gain insight into the way pupils interact with a CBLE whi…
Interviewing parents of children in care
The research interview as a test
This article concentrates on how interviewees experience the context of semi-structured or open interviews as a "test," both in terms of being an interviewee and in terms of the roles presupposed in what the interview is about. It invites a reflexive discourse-analytical turn in which we concentrate on the interactional negotiation of various aspects of the interview situation and the interview as an interactional accomplishment. The focus is on …
Notes on linguistic ethnography as a liminal activity
Linguistic ethnography has rapidly secured itself a place among the most commonly used paradigms for analyzing language in use. In this discussion paper we present a bird's eye view of the state of linguistic ethnography as it is reflected in the papers included in this volume. We propose to identify the main theoretical and methodological concerns that seem to emerge across the research presented here. Some of them center around the etic-emic, f…
The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare
Hall C, Slembrouck S, Haigh E, Lee A. The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 348–357 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This article examines the ways in which child welfare professionals negotiate their roles and those of other professionals in home visits with clients, in this case the parents of yo…
Communication with parents in child welfare
This paper reviews the literature on communication between professionals and parents/carers in health and social care. It notes that there is considerable research on doctor–patient communication and counselling, but much less on professionals who visit families in their homes. While there is a large literature on good practice and communication skills, there is little research on the actual encounters themselves. What counts as ‘communication’ i…
Language and Migration Research Network
Transcription — the extended directions of data histories
This response picks up on the four key points developed in `Variation in Transcription'. The focus is on how transcription practices are implicated in extended histories of data processing by arguing for a wider take on the `dyad' of researcher and represented voice. The article addresses the relevance of historically specific contexts of `hearing' and interpretative-analytical appropriation, the practical exigencies of publication and how these …
Professional Categorization, Risk Management and Inter-Agency Communication in Public Inquiries into Disastrous Outcomes
This paper suggests a conceptual shift in the way we approach information sharing by foregrounding the role of categorization. We argue that the establishment of professional categories, while being central to institutional intervention, is contingent on the complexities of everyday inter-professional encounters. It is important therefore to analyse situations in professionals report on the negotiation of categories as well as how professionals a…
Spaces of multilingualism
Explanation, Interpretation and Critique in the Analysis of Discourse
The first half of this article offers an assessment of critical discourse analysis, as developed since the 1980s and understood at the time in terms of a much-needed departure from predominantly descriptive modes of linguistic enquiry which prevented an adequate thematization of power, inequality and ideology. In this review I draw attention to some enduring tensions in the model's aspirations between (1) being an interpretative mode of enquiry w…
You Don't Know What They Translate
Communication with parents in child welfare
This paper reviews the literature on communication between professionals and parents/carers in health and social care. It notes that there is considerable research on doctor–patient communication and counselling, but much less on professionals who visit families in their homes. While there is a large literature on good practice and communication skills, there is little research on the actual encounters themselves. What counts as ‘communication’ i…
Multilingualism and diasporic populations
Parent participation in social work meetings - the case of child protection conferences
This paper is about parent participation in cases where children are involved in a child protection process in the UK. It concentrates on the child protection conference as a site at which the participation of the client and decision-making by professionals are balanced with one another. Unlike previous research, which has been concerned with asking participants their reactions and views using research interviews, the focus here will be on the ve…
Discourse and Critique
Professional Categorization, Risk Management and Inter-Agency Communication in Public Inquiries into Disastrous Outcomes
This paper suggests a conceptual shift in the way we approach information sharing by foregrounding the role of categorization. We argue that the establishment of professional categories, while being central to institutional intervention, is contingent on the complexities of everyday inter-professional encounters. It is important therefore to analyse situations in professionals report on the negotiation of categories as well as how professionals a…
Reflexivity and the research interview
This paper engages with “researcher reflexivity” in terms of a set of discourse analytical imperatives which derive from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and as a set of epistemological implications which follow from my ethnographic-interventionist engagement with a specific field of (institutionalized) practice (broadly, child protection in Flanders). The focus of the paper is on a reflexive discourse analysis of two data events (qualitative intervie…
Transcription — the extended directions of data histories
This response picks up on the four key points developed in `Variation in Transcription'. The focus is on how transcription practices are implicated in extended histories of data processing by arguing for a wider take on the `dyad' of researcher and represented voice. The article addresses the relevance of historically specific contexts of `hearing' and interpretative-analytical appropriation, the practical exigencies of publication and how these …
The various guises of translanguaging and its theoretical airstrip
This paper addresses the necessary complementarity between a translanguaging and named language-perspective by critically examining risks of ‘overshooting’ when a translanguaging view is theoretically posited as the ultimately superior (sociolinguistic) theory of language use and learning in today’s multilingual world
What can technology offer to linguistically diverse classrooms? Using multilingual content in a computer-based learning environment for primary education
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) have the potential to integrate the linguistic diversity present in classrooms as a resourceful tool in pupils’ learning process. Particularly for pupils who speak a language at home other than the language which is used at school, more understanding is needed on how CBLEs offering multilingual content can assist them. With this study, we aim to gain insight into the way pupils interact with a CBLE whi…
Interviewing parents of children in care
The research interview as a test
This article concentrates on how interviewees experience the context of semi-structured or open interviews as a "test," both in terms of being an interviewee and in terms of the roles presupposed in what the interview is about. It invites a reflexive discourse-analytical turn in which we concentrate on the interactional negotiation of various aspects of the interview situation and the interview as an interactional accomplishment. The focus is on …
Discourse, critique and ethnography
The globalization of local indexicalities through music
This article reports on a sociolinguistic study into the prevalence of African‐American English (AAE) features in the lyrical language use of blues artists, relying on data from different social and national backgrounds and time periods. It adopts a variationist linguistic methodological approach to examine the prevalence of five AAE forms in live‐performed blues music: /aɪ/ monophthongization, post‐consonantal word‐final /t/ deletion, post‐conso…
The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare
Hall C, Slembrouck S, Haigh E, Lee A. The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 348–357 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This article examines the ways in which child welfare professionals negotiate their roles and those of other professionals in home visits with clients, in this case the parents of yo…
Translation, direct quotation and decontextualisation
This paper aims to explore the interrelationships between one form of reported speech, verbatim quotation, and processes of translation. Starting from a survey of reporting practices in one institutional domain (parliamentary records), attention is drawn to parallel processes in areas of translation as diverse as dubbing, subtitling and literary translation. These parallels raise the possibility of a common discourse‐oriented paradigm for analysi…
Covering Blue Voices
Many musicologists and researchers of popular music have recently stressed the omnipresence of covers in today’s music industry. In the sociolinguistics of music, however, studio-recorded covers and their potential differences from ‘original’ compositions have certainly been acknowledged in passing, but very few sociolinguists concerned with the study of song seem to have systematically explored how language use may differ in such re-imagined mus…
The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilinguals
This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and Farver's language independence hypothesis. We assessed 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual children attending Dutc…
What the map cuts up, the story cuts across
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Globalising flows
Globalising flows
Discursieve praxis en ideologie
Discursieve praxis en ideologie.Stef Slembrouck 1 .Inleiding.De centrale stelling in deze bijdrage omvat drie luiken.Ten eerste, dat de analyse van discursieve praktijken als uitgangspunt moet dienen voor de studie van de relatie tussen taalgebruik en ideologie.Dat, ten tweede, met in het achterhoofd het spanningsveld tussen structuur en gebeurtenis, voldoende aandacht moet besteed worden aan het potentieel contradictoire, momentane en onbeslecht…
Translation, direct quotation and decontextualisation
This paper aims to explore the interrelationships between one form of reported speech, verbatim quotation, and processes of translation. Starting from a survey of reporting practices in one institutional domain (parliamentary records), attention is drawn to parallel processes in areas of translation as diverse as dubbing, subtitling and literary translation. These parallels raise the possibility of a common discourse‐oriented paradigm for analysi…
Parent participation in social work meetings - the case of child protection conferences
This paper is about parent participation in cases where children are involved in a child protection process in the UK. It concentrates on the child protection conference as a site at which the participation of the client and decision-making by professionals are balanced with one another. Unlike previous research, which has been concerned with asking participants their reactions and views using research interviews, the focus here will be on the ve…
Explanation, Interpretation and Critique in the Analysis of Discourse
The first half of this article offers an assessment of critical discourse analysis, as developed since the 1980s and understood at the time in terms of a much-needed departure from predominantly descriptive modes of linguistic enquiry which prevented an adequate thematization of power, inequality and ideology. In this review I draw attention to some enduring tensions in the model's aspirations between (1) being an interpretative mode of enquiry w…
Discourse and Critique
What the map cuts up, the story cuts across
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Reflexivity and the research interview
This paper engages with “researcher reflexivity” in terms of a set of discourse analytical imperatives which derive from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and as a set of epistemological implications which follow from my ethnographic-interventionist engagement with a specific field of (institutionalized) practice (broadly, child protection in Flanders). The focus of the paper is on a reflexive discourse analysis of two data events (qualitative intervie…
Polycentricity and interactional regimes in ‘global neighborhoods’
Focusing on multilingualism in late-modern urban environments, this article argues for the neighborhood as a unit of practice mapped by field-specific relations. We show how language use and multilingualism are given social form by conditions of polycentricity and regimes of interactional practice. We present a preliminary typology of different places in an immigrant neighborhood in Ghent (Belgium) that organize different patterns of language use…
Discourse, critique and ethnography
Multilingualism and diasporic populations
Spaces of multilingualism
You Don't Know What They Translate
Transcription — the extended directions of data histories
This response picks up on the four key points developed in `Variation in Transcription'. The focus is on how transcription practices are implicated in extended histories of data processing by arguing for a wider take on the `dyad' of researcher and represented voice. The article addresses the relevance of historically specific contexts of `hearing' and interpretative-analytical appropriation, the practical exigencies of publication and how these …
Professional Categorization, Risk Management and Inter-Agency Communication in Public Inquiries into Disastrous Outcomes
This paper suggests a conceptual shift in the way we approach information sharing by foregrounding the role of categorization. We argue that the establishment of professional categories, while being central to institutional intervention, is contingent on the complexities of everyday inter-professional encounters. It is important therefore to analyse situations in professionals report on the negotiation of categories as well as how professionals a…
Language and Migration Research Network
Communication with parents in child welfare
This paper reviews the literature on communication between professionals and parents/carers in health and social care. It notes that there is considerable research on doctor–patient communication and counselling, but much less on professionals who visit families in their homes. While there is a large literature on good practice and communication skills, there is little research on the actual encounters themselves. What counts as ‘communication’ i…
Notes on linguistic ethnography as a liminal activity
Linguistic ethnography has rapidly secured itself a place among the most commonly used paradigms for analyzing language in use. In this discussion paper we present a bird's eye view of the state of linguistic ethnography as it is reflected in the papers included in this volume. We propose to identify the main theoretical and methodological concerns that seem to emerge across the research presented here. Some of them center around the etic-emic, f…
The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare
Hall C, Slembrouck S, Haigh E, Lee A. The management of professional roles during boundary work in child welfare Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 348–357 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This article examines the ways in which child welfare professionals negotiate their roles and those of other professionals in home visits with clients, in this case the parents of yo…
Interviewing parents of children in care
The research interview as a test
This article concentrates on how interviewees experience the context of semi-structured or open interviews as a "test," both in terms of being an interviewee and in terms of the roles presupposed in what the interview is about. It invites a reflexive discourse-analytical turn in which we concentrate on the interactional negotiation of various aspects of the interview situation and the interview as an interactional accomplishment. The focus is on …
What can technology offer to linguistically diverse classrooms? Using multilingual content in a computer-based learning environment for primary education
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) have the potential to integrate the linguistic diversity present in classrooms as a resourceful tool in pupils’ learning process. Particularly for pupils who speak a language at home other than the language which is used at school, more understanding is needed on how CBLEs offering multilingual content can assist them. With this study, we aim to gain insight into the way pupils interact with a CBLE whi…
Advice Giving, Managing Interruptions and the Construction of ‘Teachable Moments’
The focus of this article is on home visiting in child welfare, an activity which involves a publicly accountable performance of professional tasks in a private space.We specifically examine a recording of a visit by a home learning worker to a mother and her three-year-old child with special needs.In the first part of the article, sequential analysis is combined with an understanding of frame and participant alignment (Goffman).We note how the c…
Assessment accommodations for multilingual learners
A challenge in designing tests is ensuring fairness for all test takers. Pupils who are not yet sufficiently proficient in the language of schooling taking a test that was designed for native speakers is unfair, since they will not be able to demonstrate their true abilities (Abedi, J., and C. Lord. 2001. “The Language Factor in Mathematics Tests.” Applied Measurement in Education 14 (3): 219–234.). Multilingual pupils should be provided with acc…
Bureaucracy
The study of bureaucracy has in many respects been defined negatively from the start, perhaps as the ultimate example of an uneasy match between the individual and (state) institution. While noting how it is easy for research to be “trapped” within the “moralizing” gap between modernist ideal, failing practice, and self‐sustaining institution, this entry addresses questions of scope, focus, and key concepts for the linguistic anthropological stud…
Sociology (25 works) · Linguistics (23 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works)