Second language studies lecture series: Patricia Duff

Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia, will lecture on "Issues in Academic Discourse Socialization." Academic discourse has been examined from a number of theoretical perspectives over the past two decades in applied linguistics, particularly at the postsecondary level, with language/literacy socialization being one of the more recent.

The basic questions this latter work addresses are: How do newcomers to an academic culture, whether as native speakers or non-native speakers of the language(s) used, learn how to participate appropriately in the oral and written discourse and related practices associated with that discourse community? How are they explicitly or implicitly inducted or socialized into these local discursive practices? How does interaction with their peers, instructors, tutors and others facilitate the process of gaining expertise in those practices? And how do the practices and norms themselves evolve over time and across practitioners, given the cultural and historical context of the local community of practice?

In this presentation, Duff will discuss five issues connected with academic discourse socialization in second-language (L2) contexts specifically that challenge commonplace assumptions about both the nature of academic discourse in contemporary secondary and postsecondary settings and about the nature of linguistic socialization itself.

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Second Language Studies, Manoa

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Christina Higgins, 956-2785, cmhiggin@hawaii.edu

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