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Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies> is now tweeting - you can follow us @UrbLang (http://twitter.com/UrbLang) WPULL/ UrbLang<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies> is a fast outlet for research on linguistic practice, literacies and mediated communication in diverse and stratified urban settings. It based at King's College London<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc> and has a track-record publishing papers at the cutting edge of sociolinguistics, · broadening its theoretical vocabulary with concepts like 'securitisation', 'governmentality', 'complexity', 'scale' and 'superdiversity' · interrogating or reformulating established notion like 'ethnolect', 'repertoire' and 'speech community' · developing new methods in variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography · investigating the culture and politics of language education There are papers coming up on: · language ideology firestorms and how to survive at their centre (Heike Wiese) · language work in a call-centre: the first linguistic ethnography (Johanna Woydack) · teaching the language of a former enemy and how it challenges assumptions about language pedagogy (Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous & Ben Rampton) · 'conviviality' in superdiverse urban environments - can we really pin it down? (Ben Rampton) · history and challenges for bilingual education in Hong Kong (Miguel Pérez Milans) Contributors to WPULL/ UrbLang<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies> also include Jan Blommaert, Jim Collins, Jie Dong, Branca Fabrício, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Roxy Harris, Jürgen Jaspers, Cathy Kell, Martha Karrebæk, Adam Lefstein, Lian Madsen, Rob Moore, David Parkin, Michael Silverstein, Julia Snell, Max Spotti, Karin Tusting, and Piia Varis. Follow us at @UrbLang - http://twitter.com/UrbLang Ben Rampton, Editor Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies<https://kcl.academia.edu/WorkingPapersinUrbanLanguageLiteracies> Centre for Language Discourse & Communication King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc> Twitter feed @UrbLang *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]