Identity Concepts
This is an ideological construct called into play by social actors to produce and reproduce social categories and boundaries; in relation to intercultural communication, it is the construction of ways of life of different national and ethnic groups.
What is culture?
These migrants face uniques challenges such as being expected to have an automatic affiliation with their "home" culture and being judged for their language proficiency.
What are adoptees-returnees?
This term refers to the strategic use of language alternation for meaning making and negotiation. It may be a common feature of critical pedagogy classrooms.
This is "an approach to second language teaching in which social justice is a central concept and which aims at the active, democratic engagement of students" (Abdenia & Crookes, 2010, p. 242)
What is Critical Pedagogy?
“[T]he social context in which more than one language is present” (Gorter, 2006, p. 1). This term primarily refers to visual indicators of linguistic diversity in the public space.
What is linguistic landscape?
This is a heavily theorized, academic concept which refers to a sense of self which is continually negotiated and renegotiated in relation to the larger social world as well as time and space (Norton, 2009).
What is identity?
These people moved due to a desire to improve their quality of life or career options.
What are economic migrants?
A well formed teaching "Method" should include a description of the responsibilities of each of these types of participants.
What are Learner and Teacher Roles?
This term refers to learning through hands-on, on-site activities.
What is experiential learning?
This term refers to a sociological approach which is "more nuanced, multileveled and complicated" than earlier approaches (Block, 2007, p. 3). Culture and identity are seen as fluid.
What is poststructuralism?
This term has been used in different ways by different researchers; a more modern definition encompasses cross-cultural, intercultural, and inter-discursive dimensions.
What is intercultural communication?
“[A] person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture, building relationships to all cultures, while not having full ownership in any...” (Pollock, 2009, p. 19). Generally the children of migrants.
Who are third culture kids?
This term means a set of classroom specifications for accomplishing linguistic objectives. However, current practice does not always align with the use of this term.
What is a language teaching Method?
This teacher-centered method focused on memorization and translation, and although very traditional, it is still used today.
What is grammar translation?
The flow of media around the world, and the linguistic diversity present in a culture's media.
What is mediascape?
This term refers to the 'negotiation of difference' in 'the presence of fissures, gaps and contradictions' during which the past and the present 'encounter and transform each other' (Papastergiadis, 2000: 170); metaphorically, this may be considered as "the whole greater than the sum of its parts" for language and identity mixing.
What is hybridity?
These people are similar to refugees, but can apply for refugees status after fleeing their home country.
What are asylum seekers?
This term refers to teaching approaches which focus on learners' needs and goals, and have more consideration for learners' styles, preferences, and autonomy.
What is learner-centered instruction?
This method is centered on providing learners activities which prepare them for the real world and meet their communicative goals.
What is TBLT?
This term refers to “The conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions of the individual, her sense of herself and her ways of understanding her relation in the world” (Weedon, 1997, p. 32); these are discursively re-constructed as part of identity.
What are subjectivities?
This term refers to the "the state of human beings who are forced by their individual life trajectories to make choices where choices are not easy to make. However, it is not a desirable state and in studies based on life narratives, individuals generally attempt to resolve the conflicts that underlie" it.
What is ambivalence?
These people were born on one country but raised in another; they are neither ESL learners nor native English speakers.
What is Generation 1.5?
"Theoretical positions and beliefs about teaching, language, language learning, learners, institutional and societal factors, purposes of a course, and the applicability of all to a specific educational context” (Brown & Lee, 2015, p. 16).
What is a teaching approach?
A course following this method sticks to a single subject theme, and structures the language elements of the syllabus around the delivery of that subject.
What is Content-Based Language Teaching?
This hypothesis states that language shapes/affects/determines our world view.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? (OR linguistic relativity)