Crawlers, Footers and Runners:Language ideological attribution to adult language learners in a Dutch as an L2 classroom

This paper deals with a volunteer teacher teaching Dutch as an L2 to asylum seekers at a Red Cross asylum seeker centre in West Flanders, Belgium. More precisely, it investigates the practical professional knowledge of this volunteer teacher, taking a peek into her meta-pragmatic judgements about language and her views on her students’ literacy skills (or lack thereof). It further shows how her students manage to challenge her authority through jocular moves which reveal the value of their multilingual repertoires and the literacy skills they already own through their previous experiences with... Mehr ...