“Dawning of an Aspect”: Creating Contexts for Articulating Educators’ Changes in Ideological Perspectives on Languaging

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Abstract

We consider here the “dawning of an aspect” in educators’ reflexive writing as articulations of changing views about their relationship to languaging. By analyzing 50 linguistic autobiographies written for a master’s level online course in sociolinguistics for educators, we examine how “dawnings” were rhetorically framed. Collaborative, iterative coding followed by discourse analysis led us to interpret the importance of temporality for rhetorically framing newly articulated understandings. Implications for bilingual education and teacher preparation include how reflexive writing about languaging can serve as (1) a pedagogical context for expanding teachers’ views in regard to teaching and learning and as (2) a methodological context for understanding how such views and related language ideologies can shift by teacher educators.

Authors

• Kate T. Anderson, Arizona State University

• Chris K. Chang-Bacon, University of Virginia

• Ashley Yung Batchelor, Arizona State University