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Greyson publishes in the Modern Language Journal

Greyson Xiao has published an open access article in The Modern Language Journal!

The study examines how constructed identities mediate meaning-making in English-medium instruction, and how silence and humor constitute translanguaging spaces in classroom interaction.

https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.70024


L2J2 at AERA 2025

A few pics of LJ, Ruth, and Tingting at their roundtable presentation at AERA 2025. Tingting and Ruth did a wonderful job leading the presentation and discussion!


L2J2 at AAAL 2025

Members of the L2J2 Lab had a great experience at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. LJ Randolph gave a plenary address (“Toward an Anticolonial World Language Curriculum”) and served as discussant on the panel The Wilga Rivers Invited Colloquium (“Contesting Culturelessness: Developing Hemispheric Black Language Pedagogies in World Language Education”). Ruth Adeniyi and Tingting Schwartz presented a paper titled “Language Education for Whom and What Purposes?: Critical Discourse Analysis of University Language Program Promotions.” And Gengqi (Greyson) Xiao presented a paper titled “From Majority to Minority: Raciolinguistic Socialization of Chinese Students in U.S. Higher Education.”