Boundaries and hybrid blends: How one multilingual narrator displays symbolic competence in a college writing class
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DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2018.03.002
Abstract: Abstract Literacy scholars and second language researchers have identified ELL writers' border crossing experiences as prime sites of critical literacy, observing multilingual speakers' increased ability to manipulate and inflect language with cross-cultural connotations, including metaphorical… read more here.
Keywords: competence; language; blends one; boundaries hybrid ... See more keywords
Beyond a Tolerance of Ambiguity: Symbolic Competence as Creative Uncertainty and Doubt
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DOI: 10.5070/l29232839
Abstract: Author(s): Richardson, Diane | Abstract: Tolerance of ambiguity has been referred to as “the indispensable component of symbolic competence” (Kramsch, 2006, p. 251) and the recommendation was later made for college-level language instructors interested in… read more here.
Keywords: uncertainty doubt; ambiguity; language; tolerance ambiguity ... See more keywords
Le Pouvoir du Théâtre: Foreign Languages, Higher Education, and Capturing the Notion of Symbolic Competence
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DOI: 10.5070/l29233094
Abstract: The study of foreign languages has historically been a cornerstone in higher education for a variety of very good reasons, one being that it will help students develop a sensitivity to diversity. This rationale is… read more here.
Keywords: competence; foreign languages; notion symbolic; higher education ... See more keywords