Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook
The paper explores the use of varied semiotic resources in the linguistic, social and cultural practices of young adults in the context of Bangladesh and Mongolia. Based on a translinguistic analysis (including pre-textual history, contextual relations, sub-textual meaning, intertextual echoes and p...
Sender Dovchin, Shaila Sultana, Alastair Pennycook
This article seeks to expand the current discussions on the notion of ‘translingual Englishes’ by incorporating the idea of ‘unequal Englishes’ as a way of understanding the role of English in relation to understudied Asian peripheral contexts such as Mongolia and Bangladesh. It is clear that young ...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin
This paper seeks to reveal the out of classroom digital linguistic practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students in the peripheral Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Mongolia - contexts that have rarely been addressed in previous research. It is based on two digital ethnog...
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Sender Dovchin, Shaila Sultana, Alastair Pennycook
The translingual practices of young Mongolians and Bangladeshis suggest that contrary to those popular discourses which position youth as passive recipients of global culture, these young adults are better understood as actively and powerfully engaged with popular culture productions. Drawing on the...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook
Focusing on online interactions among young adults in Bangladesh and Mongolia – two countries located politically, culturally and economically on the Asian periphery – this paper looks at how young adults use linguistic and cultural resources in their online interactions as part of a complex and eme...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin
Based on virtual conversations drawn from two separate intensive ethnographic studies in Bangladesh and Mongolia, we show that popular cultural texts play a significant role in young adults’ heteroglossic language practices. On the one hand, they borrow voices from cultural texts and cross the bound...
Sarah Hopkyns, Sender Dovchin, Shaila Sultana
English-medium instruction (EMI) is on the rise around the world due to globalization, internationalization and neoliberal ideologies which equate English with social capital, prestige, and success in the labour market. While many EMI policies aim to equip students with English as a ‘lingua academia...
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin
The purpose of this paper is to explore the intricate relationship between the spatial dynamics of real and imagined spaces, and to understand how language and identity evolve and emerge within these spaces. To do so, both face-to-face and digital conversations from an intensive three-month-long eth...
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana