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Here is an update on the Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies posted between the ends of October and December 2015, followed by a list of all the others during 2015:

· WP183 Carhill-Poza 2015. Silenced partners: The role of bilingual peers in secondary school contexts Although research often acknowledges the importance of engaging students’ home language and culture to bridge to academic literacies in English, few have explicitly examined bilingual peers as a resource for language learning. This study explores how adolescent immigrant students engaged multiple linguistic codes for language and content learning in urban US high schools….

· WP182 Holmes 2015. Promoting multilingual creativity: Key principles from successful projects There are now over 1 million pupils in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL). In intensely diverse contexts such as London this has thrown up new hybrid ways of using language. Rather than languages living neatly side by side, they mix and mingle, with individuals drawing on two or more languages at once as they communicate and express themselves….

· WP181 Goebel 2015. From backstage to frontstage in interviews. Taking inspiration from Goffman’s work on the presentation of self, from work on register formation and from critiques of interviews, this paper looks at how one bureaucrat, Ismail, presents himself as an exemplary bureaucrat and leader through the moving of backstage signs to a frontstage performance…

· WP180 Pérez-Milans 2015. Late modern reflexivity in linguistic ethnographies of youth. This short paper begins with a sketch of the dominant approaches to reflexivity in contemporary applied linguistics and social theory. It critically examines recent contributions on the interrelation between agency, reflexivity and social structure from the field of critical realism in sociological research vis-à-vis well established work in the language disciplines…..

· WP179 Peled 2015. Language, power, ethics and superdiversity In an era characterised by increasingly dynamic population mobility, traditional presuppositions about the substance of individual and group identities, and about the social and political semiotics that shape them, seem inadequate. In superdiverse societies, the question of language poses a particularly difficult challenge, owing both to its identitarian and communicative dimensions….

· WP178 Rampton, Charalambous & Charalambous 2015. End-of-Project Report - Crossing languages & borders: Intercultural language education in a conflict-troubled context This is a final report to the Leverhulme Trust of a project funded from 2012 to 2015. After long-established hostility, as a reconciliatory gesture in 2003, the Republic of Cyprus introduced optional Turkish-as-a-Foreign-Language classes for Greek-Cypriots…

Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies focuses on linguistic practice, literacies and mediated communication in diverse and stratified urban settings. It publishes research committed to developing

· sociolinguistic, applied and educational frameworks adequate for the analysis of urban language, literacies, interaction and learning

· modes of intervention in language policy and practice that are productively tuned to the realities of contemporary urban life.

Since it was launched on Academia.edu in October 2014, WPULL has received more than 23,000 visits. Earlier in 2015, we posted:

· WP177 Charalambous, Charalambous, Khan & Rampton 2015. Sociolinguistics and security.

· WP176 Martín Rojo 2015. Five Foucauldian postulates for rethinking language and power

· WP175 Goebel 2015. Infrastructures for ethnicity

· WP174 Spotti & Kroon 2015. Multilingual classrooms in times of superdiversity

· WP173 Tremlett & Harris 2015. Beyond the interview: Ethnicity/'race' in sociological research

· WP172 Borba 2015. A sociolinguistics from the South? Discursive colonization, epistemological imbalances and rehearsed narratives at a Brazilian gender identity clinic

· WP171 Cross 2015. Double edged risk: Disabled people’s negotiation of status in Adult Protection proceedings

· WP170 Blommaert 2015. Chronotopic identities.

· WP169 Bock 2015. ‘Why can’t race just be a normal thing?’: Entangled discourses in the narratives of young South Africans

· WP168 Collins 2015. Negotiating language diversity and social inequality: Policies and practices at South City Primary School.

· WP167 Fabricio 2015. Infectious repetition-differentiation in an on-line debate on sexualities: Textual friction, scale shifts and resemiotization potential

· WP166 Gao 2015. Multilingualism and good citizenship: The making of language celebrities in Chinese media

· WP165 Rampton 2015. The next ten years for applied linguistics?

· WP164 Parkin 2015. Revisiting: Keywords, transforming phrases, and cultural concepts

· WP163 Borba 2015. How an individual becomes a subject: Discourse, interaction, and subjectification at a Brazilian gender identity clinic

· WP162 Rampton 2015. Post-panoptic standard language?

· WP161 Holmes 2015 Monsters, myths and Multilingual Creativity

· WP160 Peck & Stroud 2015. Skinscapes

· WP159 Urciuoli 2015. The compromised pragmatics of diversity

· WP158 Pérez-Milans 2015. Language and identity in linguistic ethnography

· WP157 Mendoza-Denton 2015. Gangs on YouTube: Localism, Spanish/English variation and music fandom

· WP156 Segal & Lefstein 2015. Exuberant voiceless participation: Dialogic sensibilities in the primary classroom

· WP155 Eley 2015. A micro-ecology of language in multi-ethnic Frankfurt: The linguistic ethnography of a barbershop