Assignment title: Management
Bilingualism assignment: Compare two papers (one pair)
The first two pair of papers represent on-going debates in the field. Read the papers,
explain the position of the authors in the first paper, and read the reaction in the second
paper. Do you feel both papers make valid points (which?) and after a critical reading, who
would you agree with most?
1) Blommaert, J. & Rampton, B. (2011) Language and Superdiversity. Diversités 13 (2),
1-22. (download on www.academia.edu)
2) Pavlenko, A. (forthcoming) Superdiversity and why it isn't. Sloganizations in
Language Education Discourse (download on www.academia.edu)
1) Turnbull, B. (2016) Reframing foreign language learning as bilingual education:
epistemological changes towards the emergent bilingual. International Journal of
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (online first)
2) García, O. (2017) Reflections on Turnbull's reframing of foreign language education:
bilingual epistemologies. International Journal of Bilingual Education and
Bilingualism (online first)
Word limit: between 3500 - 4000 words.