Janina Brutt-Griffler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3844580 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Janina Brutt-Griffler |
| PRENOMES | Janina |
| SOBRENOME | Brutt-Griffler |
| ASSINATURA | BRUTT-GRIFFLER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7250-5444 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Role of the Ideal L2 Self in the L2 Motivational Self-System for Language Learning
The L2 (second/foreign language) Motivational Self-System (L2MSS) proposed by Dörnyei has been extensively examined in L2 classrooms due to the central role of learners’ motivation in L2 learning. Among the components, the Ideal L2 Self (L2 learners’ future self-vision) has been debated regarding contextual factors. Recently, the validity of empirical studies on the L2MSS has been questioned with regard to methodological and contextual variations…
English in the digital space
This qualitative study examines the experiences of three Asian international students who engage in informal, digitally mediated English and multilingual activities alongside their academic studies in South Korea. Using a netnographic approach supplemented by interviews, the study explores their language practices on the digital platform Padlet. The findings show that multilingual students who participate in multicultural online contexts use Engl…
Children’s bilingual identity and early biliteracy development in a dual language bilingual education program
This mixed-methods study investigates how second-grade Spanish-English bilingual children develop both linguistic and sociocultural competence in a dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program. It focuses specifically on their early biliteracy and bilingual identity development across school and home contexts. Participants included 37 students and four teachers. Data sources included student and teacher surveys and interviews, standardized la…
Professional Identity Development of Pre-Service English Teachers in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Multilingual imperatives in a local family
This study examines how a high-pressure family language policy (FLP) is implemented in South Korea, focusing on the experiences of a family with a preschool-aged child, Jay. The phenomenon of “English fever,” which has led to the widespread adoption of intensive early childhood English education, has contributed to the increasing prevalence of high-pressure FLPs. They are often characterized by parents’ belief in creating an English-rich environm…
Between- and within-school tracking and literacy skills of multilingual young adults
Enhancing EMI pedagogical curricula to prepare pre‐service English teachers for socioculturally diverse classrooms
With the rise of English as a global academic lingua franca, the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) in South Korea's higher education system has grown substantially. This mixed‐methods study contributes to the scholarship on EMI policy and practice by drawing on data from the training experiences and self‐assessment of 327 pre‐service English teachers (PSETs) regarding their preparation to serve as secondary English teachers, the …
Building Academic Resilience in Literacy
In this study, we used an academic resilience framework to explore how adolescents from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds overcame adversity and achieved high levels of reading proficiency. Our main aim was to investigate whether digital reading practices and reading engagement (reading motivation and metacognitive strategies) could act as protective factors, individually and collectively, promoting academic resilience among students wit…
Vocabulary Development Through Peer Interactions in Early Childhood
Language development of preschoolers can be positively stimulated and enhanced by exposure to language of peers. Likewise, interactions of young learners with native-monolingual classmates may contribute to their L2 development. However, research on peer interaction effects in young learners’ domains of L2 development is meager. This qualitative study investigated incidental vocabulary learning of an immigrant emergent bilingual child through his…
Dual language programs
Employing a mixed-methods research design, this study examines how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advances language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders in relation to content area achievement as measured on NYS standardized tests in English Language Arts and Math. It further investigates how students’ emotional (school identification) and behavioral engagement (language learning commitment) relate …
Multicultural coexistence as a site of otherness and becoming self
Identity is a subject of intense scrutiny in the field of Applied Linguistics. Of particular concern are issues of intersectionality of language and culture in the lives of minority groups. Yet, the empirical evidence in support of language and cultural identity (re)construction of ethnic minorities in Japan is far from conclusive. Drawing on a narrative inquiry approach, the present study seeks to shed light on multilingual identity construction…
The Testing culture and the role of private education
Entrance to prestigious four-year colleges in South Korea depends heavily on secondary school curricula and scoring high enough on the university entrance exam known as the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). The current national policy has elevated English to the same level of importance as math and Korean on the CSAT. Private English lessons, a part of the burgeoning shadow education, are vital to high school students seeking to obtain a hi…
Multimodal Communication in an Early Childhood Bilingual Education Setting
Bilingual learners often integrate semiotic resources and communicative modes across the languages they speak. Unfortunately, current approaches to researching such a phenomenon assign pragmatic functions to individual discourse moves at best or to isolated utterances at worst. Thus, using a social semiotic multimodal interaction analysis, this study examined actions in interactions of a group of six transnational students participating in a sec…
Language as a bridge to higher education
In a nation where monolingualism predominates, heritage language (HL) has been downplayed as less important in educational contexts in the U.S. Disproportionately little attention has been given to the role of HL in language minority (LM) students’ attendance to postsecondary education (PSE) (cf. Brutt-Griffler, Janina, and Manka Varghese, eds. 2004. Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Press). To address this void, …
In their own voices
This study explores how learning English among one subset of English learners, Asian female international students at US colleges, contributes to the larger project of advancing gender equality. Using their narratives, we ask why Asian female international students invest so much of their identities and effort into learning English. We discuss the ways in which their endeavours may even silently promote the development of English as a gender-neut…
Gender socialization
This study provides a multilayered analysis of one critical variable that recently has come to the fore in scholarly debates in applied linguistics. It takes the vantage point of 281 Asian millennials and examines how and why some challenge the socio‐cultural notions of gender outside their immediate languacultures. Using a mixed‐method approach, the study adduces quantitative and qualitative data. Our statistical findings show the centrality of …
In the Presence of English
The use of "indigenous" and urban vernaculars in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the reasons for and the effects of the language shift in Zimbabwe represented by the increasing use of pan-ethnic lingua francas, or urban vernaculars, of local origin. It is suggested that essentialist/primordialist assumptions about “indigenous” languages that feature prominently in current accounts of language endangerment should be made more complex by understanding their historical and social origins. In Zimbabwe, this …
Non‐native Language Teachers
"Globalisation" and Applied Linguistics
The Forum
Comment 2
World English
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
Class, Ethnicity, and Language Rights
This study examines language policy in two British colonies, Basutoland (Lesotho) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It finds that mother tongue education and the concomitant restriction of the teaching of English for the working classes in these colonial contexts constituted a form of industrial education. On the basis of these data, a critique is offered of some of the problematic assumptions of the language …
Transcending the nativeness paradigm
This study suggests that identity-formation is related to the social process of identity-assignation in the mother tongue context. The case studies of four English speakers are summarized in this study. The four English speakers, who were all born outside the mother tongue context, bend categories in various ways. This uncovers the ways in which mother tongue speakers situate other English users and how such social attitudes help shape the identi…
Transcending the nativeness paradigm
This study suggests that identity-formation is related to the social process of identity-assignation in the mother tongue context. The case studies of four English speakers are summarized in this study. The four English speakers, who were all born outside the mother tongue context, bend categories in various ways. This uncovers the ways in which mother tongue speakers situate other English users and how such social attitudes help shape the identi…
Class, Ethnicity, and Language Rights
This study examines language policy in two British colonies, Basutoland (Lesotho) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It finds that mother tongue education and the concomitant restriction of the teaching of English for the working classes in these colonial contexts constituted a form of industrial education. On the basis of these data, a critique is offered of some of the problematic assumptions of the language …
The use of "indigenous" and urban vernaculars in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the reasons for and the effects of the language shift in Zimbabwe represented by the increasing use of pan-ethnic lingua francas, or urban vernaculars, of local origin. It is suggested that essentialist/primordialist assumptions about “indigenous” languages that feature prominently in current accounts of language endangerment should be made more complex by understanding their historical and social origins. In Zimbabwe, this …
Revisiting the Colonial in the Postcolonial
Although historically much teaching of English has been done by nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs), research on their concerns as English educators has been neglected. This article takes as its central focus the narrative of NNESTs in the context of critical praxis. It discusses a graduate seminar offered for perhaps the first time in a TESOL program for NNESTs. The article presents the process of interrogating the nativeness paradigm a…
Language as a bridge to higher education
In a nation where monolingualism predominates, heritage language (HL) has been downplayed as less important in educational contexts in the U.S. Disproportionately little attention has been given to the role of HL in language minority (LM) students’ attendance to postsecondary education (PSE) (cf. Brutt-Griffler, Janina, and Manka Varghese, eds. 2004. Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Press). To address this void, …
Multicultural coexistence as a site of otherness and becoming self
Identity is a subject of intense scrutiny in the field of Applied Linguistics. Of particular concern are issues of intersectionality of language and culture in the lives of minority groups. Yet, the empirical evidence in support of language and cultural identity (re)construction of ethnic minorities in Japan is far from conclusive. Drawing on a narrative inquiry approach, the present study seeks to shed light on multilingual identity construction…
The Testing culture and the role of private education
Entrance to prestigious four-year colleges in South Korea depends heavily on secondary school curricula and scoring high enough on the university entrance exam known as the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). The current national policy has elevated English to the same level of importance as math and Korean on the CSAT. Private English lessons, a part of the burgeoning shadow education, are vital to high school students seeking to obtain a hi…
The Forum
Enhancing EMI pedagogical curricula to prepare pre‐service English teachers for socioculturally diverse classrooms
With the rise of English as a global academic lingua franca, the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) in South Korea's higher education system has grown substantially. This mixed‐methods study contributes to the scholarship on EMI policy and practice by drawing on data from the training experiences and self‐assessment of 327 pre‐service English teachers (PSETs) regarding their preparation to serve as secondary English teachers, the …
Gender socialization
This study provides a multilayered analysis of one critical variable that recently has come to the fore in scholarly debates in applied linguistics. It takes the vantage point of 281 Asian millennials and examines how and why some challenge the socio‐cultural notions of gender outside their immediate languacultures. Using a mixed‐method approach, the study adduces quantitative and qualitative data. Our statistical findings show the centrality of …
Building Academic Resilience in Literacy
In this study, we used an academic resilience framework to explore how adolescents from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds overcame adversity and achieved high levels of reading proficiency. Our main aim was to investigate whether digital reading practices and reading engagement (reading motivation and metacognitive strategies) could act as protective factors, individually and collectively, promoting academic resilience among students wit…
Multimodal Communication in an Early Childhood Bilingual Education Setting
Bilingual learners often integrate semiotic resources and communicative modes across the languages they speak. Unfortunately, current approaches to researching such a phenomenon assign pragmatic functions to individual discourse moves at best or to isolated utterances at worst. Thus, using a social semiotic multimodal interaction analysis, this study examined actions in interactions of a group of six transnational students participating in a sec…
"Globalisation" and Applied Linguistics
Conceptual questions in English as a world language
Conceptual questions in English as a world language
Revisiting the Colonial in the Postcolonial
Although historically much teaching of English has been done by nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs), research on their concerns as English educators has been neglected. This article takes as its central focus the narrative of NNESTs in the context of critical praxis. It discusses a graduate seminar offered for perhaps the first time in a TESOL program for NNESTs. The article presents the process of interrogating the nativeness paradigm a…
Transcending the nativeness paradigm
This study suggests that identity-formation is related to the social process of identity-assignation in the mother tongue context. The case studies of four English speakers are summarized in this study. The four English speakers, who were all born outside the mother tongue context, bend categories in various ways. This uncovers the ways in which mother tongue speakers situate other English users and how such social attitudes help shape the identi…
World English
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
Class, Ethnicity, and Language Rights
This study examines language policy in two British colonies, Basutoland (Lesotho) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It finds that mother tongue education and the concomitant restriction of the teaching of English for the working classes in these colonial contexts constituted a form of industrial education. On the basis of these data, a critique is offered of some of the problematic assumptions of the language …
Comment 2
The Forum
"Globalisation" and Applied Linguistics
Non‐native Language Teachers
In the Presence of English
The use of "indigenous" and urban vernaculars in Zimbabwe
This article analyzes the reasons for and the effects of the language shift in Zimbabwe represented by the increasing use of pan-ethnic lingua francas, or urban vernaculars, of local origin. It is suggested that essentialist/primordialist assumptions about “indigenous” languages that feature prominently in current accounts of language endangerment should be made more complex by understanding their historical and social origins. In Zimbabwe, this …
Gender socialization
This study provides a multilayered analysis of one critical variable that recently has come to the fore in scholarly debates in applied linguistics. It takes the vantage point of 281 Asian millennials and examines how and why some challenge the socio‐cultural notions of gender outside their immediate languacultures. Using a mixed‐method approach, the study adduces quantitative and qualitative data. Our statistical findings show the centrality of …
In their own voices
This study explores how learning English among one subset of English learners, Asian female international students at US colleges, contributes to the larger project of advancing gender equality. Using their narratives, we ask why Asian female international students invest so much of their identities and effort into learning English. We discuss the ways in which their endeavours may even silently promote the development of English as a gender-neut…
Language as a bridge to higher education
In a nation where monolingualism predominates, heritage language (HL) has been downplayed as less important in educational contexts in the U.S. Disproportionately little attention has been given to the role of HL in language minority (LM) students’ attendance to postsecondary education (PSE) (cf. Brutt-Griffler, Janina, and Manka Varghese, eds. 2004. Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Press). To address this void, …
Vocabulary Development Through Peer Interactions in Early Childhood
Language development of preschoolers can be positively stimulated and enhanced by exposure to language of peers. Likewise, interactions of young learners with native-monolingual classmates may contribute to their L2 development. However, research on peer interaction effects in young learners’ domains of L2 development is meager. This qualitative study investigated incidental vocabulary learning of an immigrant emergent bilingual child through his…
Dual language programs
Employing a mixed-methods research design, this study examines how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advances language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders in relation to content area achievement as measured on NYS standardized tests in English Language Arts and Math. It further investigates how students’ emotional (school identification) and behavioral engagement (language learning commitment) relate …
Multicultural coexistence as a site of otherness and becoming self
Identity is a subject of intense scrutiny in the field of Applied Linguistics. Of particular concern are issues of intersectionality of language and culture in the lives of minority groups. Yet, the empirical evidence in support of language and cultural identity (re)construction of ethnic minorities in Japan is far from conclusive. Drawing on a narrative inquiry approach, the present study seeks to shed light on multilingual identity construction…
The Testing culture and the role of private education
Entrance to prestigious four-year colleges in South Korea depends heavily on secondary school curricula and scoring high enough on the university entrance exam known as the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). The current national policy has elevated English to the same level of importance as math and Korean on the CSAT. Private English lessons, a part of the burgeoning shadow education, are vital to high school students seeking to obtain a hi…
Multimodal Communication in an Early Childhood Bilingual Education Setting
Bilingual learners often integrate semiotic resources and communicative modes across the languages they speak. Unfortunately, current approaches to researching such a phenomenon assign pragmatic functions to individual discourse moves at best or to isolated utterances at worst. Thus, using a social semiotic multimodal interaction analysis, this study examined actions in interactions of a group of six transnational students participating in a sec…
Between- and within-school tracking and literacy skills of multilingual young adults
Enhancing EMI pedagogical curricula to prepare pre‐service English teachers for socioculturally diverse classrooms
With the rise of English as a global academic lingua franca, the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) in South Korea's higher education system has grown substantially. This mixed‐methods study contributes to the scholarship on EMI policy and practice by drawing on data from the training experiences and self‐assessment of 327 pre‐service English teachers (PSETs) regarding their preparation to serve as secondary English teachers, the …
Building Academic Resilience in Literacy
In this study, we used an academic resilience framework to explore how adolescents from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds overcame adversity and achieved high levels of reading proficiency. Our main aim was to investigate whether digital reading practices and reading engagement (reading motivation and metacognitive strategies) could act as protective factors, individually and collectively, promoting academic resilience among students wit…
Multilingual imperatives in a local family
This study examines how a high-pressure family language policy (FLP) is implemented in South Korea, focusing on the experiences of a family with a preschool-aged child, Jay. The phenomenon of “English fever,” which has led to the widespread adoption of intensive early childhood English education, has contributed to the increasing prevalence of high-pressure FLPs. They are often characterized by parents’ belief in creating an English-rich environm…
The Role of the Ideal L2 Self in the L2 Motivational Self-System for Language Learning
The L2 (second/foreign language) Motivational Self-System (L2MSS) proposed by Dörnyei has been extensively examined in L2 classrooms due to the central role of learners’ motivation in L2 learning. Among the components, the Ideal L2 Self (L2 learners’ future self-vision) has been debated regarding contextual factors. Recently, the validity of empirical studies on the L2MSS has been questioned with regard to methodological and contextual variations…
English in the digital space
This qualitative study examines the experiences of three Asian international students who engage in informal, digitally mediated English and multilingual activities alongside their academic studies in South Korea. Using a netnographic approach supplemented by interviews, the study explores their language practices on the digital platform Padlet. The findings show that multilingual students who participate in multicultural online contexts use Engl…
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