D.21.1 (LID): Zhang, "The ideological construction of ethnic minority English learners in southwest China: stereotypes and contrasting realities"

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Summary

This paper examines the ideological construction of ethnic minority English learners in southwest China. Through the lens of linguistic ethnography, the author presents how stereotypic indexicals produced by institutional spaces of school contrast with everyday practices of individual students.

Strand

• Language and Ideology

Individual Presentations

• The ideological construction of ethnic minority English learners in southwest China: stereotypes and contrasting realities - Jing Zhang, The University of Hong Kong

Session Organizer

• AAAL 2015 Conference Committee, -