Laura Gurney
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Gurney is involved.
Articles
2025 Insider perspectives and ontological curiosity: A critical look at translanguaging Language, Culture and Society 7:2, pp. 144–169 | Article
In this paper, we engage with the concept of translanguaging, situating it as a potentially transformative approach within linguistics, particularly in contexts where the limitations of monolingual and monoglossic frameworks are not only misaligned with, but also detrimental to, the complex… read more
2024 “Fingers which mean นิ้ว นิ้วแบบนิ้วมือ”: Pre-service EFL teachers’ translanguaging beliefs and practices in Thai language-driven CLIL classrooms Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 12:1, pp. 25–48 | Article
This article explores pre-service teachers’ L1 use in Thai Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) secondary classrooms through the translanguaging frame, which emphasises the use of the whole linguistic and semiotic repertoire in the classroom to make meaning and construct new knowledge. read more
2020 Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook: Unravelling the symbiosis in Spanish as a foreign language Language, Culture and Society 2:2, pp. 149–173 | Article
In this article, we question the presumed presence of the textbook as sine qua non in languages education. Contextualising our discussion within Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) in higher education, we illuminate the overlapping ideological, historical and economic forces that frame and shape… read more