Linguistics and Education Research

Researchers working at the intersection of language, literacy, and education examine how texts are produced, interpreted, and circulated within social and institutional contexts—drawing on frameworks ranging from Bakhtinian dialogism to critical discourse analysis to understand meaning as something shaped by power, history, and community. The central concern is not just how individuals learn to read and write, but how literacy practices reproduce or challenge social arrangements, and how schooling mediates those processes. Expanding notions of multiliteracies have pushed the field to account for digital, multimodal, and culturally diverse forms of communication that traditional language education often overlooks. Active debates continue around how critical reading can be taught without becoming prescriptive, and how pedagogies developed in one linguistic or cultural context translate—or fail to translate—across others.

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Keywords

Discourse AnalysisLiteracyTextual ProductionBakhtin CircleCritical ReadingMultiliteracies