Kenneth Cruickshank

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kenneth Cruickshank plays a role.

Articles

The current discourse in Australian languages education is that if children study languages in the early years, then languages uptake in secondary schools will increase. There has been little coherent data collection and analysis, however, to support or challenge this discourse. This article draws… read more
Australian research on immigrant languages has paid little attention to interactional approaches to language alternation as identity construction, and sites other than the family and the mainstream school. We argue for the need of studies that take into account a wider range of sites, in… read more
Cruickshank, Kenneth 2015 A framework for inclusion: Plurilingual teachers in day and community schoolsTeachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts, Schmidt, Clea and Antoinette Gagné (eds.), pp. 155–171 | Article
Linguistic and cultural diversity is becoming a feature of the teaching profession in OECD countries with the increase in global migration and mobility (Reid, Collins & Singh, 2014). Plurilinguali teachers, however, tend to experience marginalisation in terms of gaining employment and in their… read more
Teachers and learners can hold differing ideas about language and goals for language learning which are then played out in classroom interactions. Constructions of what counts as language and learning impact on learner engagement and identity and the outcomes of language learning. This study… read more