Toward Democratic Discourses of Diversity: Negotiating Language Ideologies and Identities Among International Teaching Assistants

• In Event: Roundtable Session 57
  In Roundtable Session: Diverse Democracies, Democratic Diversities: International Studies on Identities, Multilingualism, and Language Rights and Ideologies

Abstract

I investigate language ideologies embedded in the discourse of diversity in relation to the issues of international students’ identity negotiation. In particular, I look into what language ideologies are embedded in an American Spoken English class designed for international teaching assistants (ITAs) at a Midwestern university in the United States. Informed by Critical Discourse Studies, I critically investigate how the language ideologies are practiced in class and in everyday life and how they influence international graduate students’ identities. In doing so, I problematize oppressing discourses of diversity in pedagogical practices with respect to the relation between language ideologies and international students’ identity construction.

Author

• Jungsook Kim, The Ohio State University - Columbus