All Outputs (6)

A reflexive approach to researching bilingualism in Wales: language, legitimacy and positionality (2023)
Journal Article

This paper engages with the negotiation of insider and outsider researcher identities in the context of Welsh-English bilingualism in Wales. It aims to develop a reflexive approach to researching bilingualism, foregrounding the actions and experience... Read More about A reflexive approach to researching bilingualism in Wales: language, legitimacy and positionality.

The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol (2022)
Journal Article

This article adopts a gendered take on Family Language Policy (FLP) by questioning the way that gender impacts on the issues faced by refugee woman during and after flight. For this reason, the ethnographically informed research addresses the concern... Read More about The gendered migrant experience: A study of Family Language Policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali Community, Bristol.

Global ambitions and local identities: New speakers’ access to linguistic markets and resources (2020)
Journal Article

A growing body of literature has addressed the ‘complex layers and nuances of today’s multilingual, mobile and global society’ [Barakos & Selleck, 2019, Elite multilingualism: Discourses, practices, and debates. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultu... Read More about Global ambitions and local identities: New speakers’ access to linguistic markets and resources.

Elite multilingualism: Discourses, practices, and debates (2019)
Journal Article

In the introduction to the special issue ‘Elite Multilingualism: Discourses, practices, and debates’, we focus on ‘elite multilingualism’ as a means to provide a window into the complex layers and nuances of today's multilingual, mobile and global so... Read More about Elite multilingualism: Discourses, practices, and debates.

Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography (2017)
Journal Article

Conventionally, ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics aim to discover how language works as “situated social practice and how it is tied to social organisation” (Heller 2011: 10). Within this, ethnography has viewed participant observation as cent... Read More about Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography.

Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article hi... Read More about Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education.