Queer immigrants' performative identity and cultural marginality in the context of queering ESL education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3089385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yih Ren (0000-0002-5171-2855, University of San Francisco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-251 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jls.00037.ren |
| OpenAlex | W4400594093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 78 |
This qualitative study analyzes three gay Chinese immigrants' experiences and perspectives regarding English hegemony, internalized oppression, and sexual identity using language ideology, social positioning, and performativity. The findings show that speaking English still determines one's proximity to American culture, and language ideology affects attitudes towards one's own culture and language. In particular, the study demonstrates atriple marginalizationin which participants are more or less marginalized because their inherited American values clash with their marginality, and at the same time, because of their negative experiences with local gay communities and rejection from their own culture, they feel alienated, displaced, and immobile as a result. Additionally, English learning and interacting with LGBTQ content contribute to their language acquisition, sexual identity transformation, and activism development. Queering ESL education is needed because English learners inherit oppressive English ideologies and show discrimination towards other marginalized groups. As agatewayto American society and cultures, ESL classes present opportunities to raise awareness and challenge hegemonic discourse. Furthermore, ESL classrooms can also be powerful places for queer students whose cultures provide little or no validation of their sexuality to cultivate their cultural competence and affirm their place within society
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Immigration · Performative utterance · Performativity · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Multilingual Education and Policy
Basics of qualitative research
The Production and Reproduction of Language Ideologies in Practice
Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows
Identity and Language Learning
Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
The psychology of globalization.
Good education in an age of measurement
Mixed-Method Research
Beyond Cultural Competence
Beyond Special Education
Using the First Language in the Classroom
Two Languages in Mind
Discipline and Punish
We make the road by walking
Introduction Language Ideology as a field of inquiry
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Cultural Mobility
Ideology and Consciousness
Many Globalizations
Language and Sexuality
Renewed commitments in a time of vigilance
The coloniality of queer theory
Towards an anthropology of cultural mobilities
Social constructionism, postmodernism and feminist sociolinguistics
On Coming Out and Coming Undone
The Forum
Queer Inquiry in Language Education
Teaching Intersectionality Intersectionally
LGBT rights versus Asian values
Geisha of a different kind
Bargaining with the State
Gay Hmong
Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication
Using language ideology and positioning to broaden the SLA learner beliefs landscape
Education and intercultural identity
We have room for but one language here
Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of homosexuality? Evidence from a national survey
Urban Immigrant Students
Issues of Validity in Progressive Paradigms of Qualitative Research
The Colonialism of the English Only Movement
Internalized Heterosexism
Healing from internalized racism for Asian Americans
Bicultural Identity, Bilingualism, and Psychological Adjustment in Multicultural Societies
Positioning
Cultures and Selves
The bilingual adaptation
Bilingualism, Biliteracy, Biculturalism, and Critical Consciousness for All
Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization
The Normalization of Queer Theory
LGB Identity Among Young Chinese
Internalized Homonegativity, Confucianism, and Self-Esteem at the Emergence of an LGBTQ Identity in Modern Vietnam
Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions
Queer immigrants' performative identity and cultural marginality in the context of queering ESL education
Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research
Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |