Dr Ildegrada da Costa Cabral

Lecturer in Education (TESOL)

Education Stirling

Dr Ildegrada da Costa Cabral

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About me

I started my academic journey at the University of Stirling in September 2022. I am involved in teaching across both our online and on-campus MSc TESOL programmes. I coordinate the modules Research Methods in TESOL, Language, Discourse and Society, Teaching Language to Young Learners, and Microteaching. Prior to this, I held positions at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, where I contributed to teaching and supervised dissertations in the MSc TESOL programmes.

My research experience and work are centred in the field of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Ethnography, which allows me to examine the use of language in its social and cultural contexts. Given my view of language as a resource and as a socially situated practice to examine social issues, my primary research orientation leans towards interpretivist approaches and qualitative research designs.

Research

Grounded on a sociolinguistic perspective, my research interests cover a wide range of topics related to multilingualism in education settings and beyond. These include areas such as language policy, multilingual education and pedagogies, classroom discourse analysis, southern epistemologies, decolonisation and decoloniality, literacies, mobilities and linguistic diversity in transnational contexts.

Outputs (7)

Outputs

Book Chapter

– The forging of postindependence language policy in Timor-Leste and diverging views on multilingualism among policy-makers

da Costa Cabral I (2024) – The forging of postindependence language policy in Timor-Leste and diverging views on multilingualism among policy-makers. In: Sociolinguistique insulaire : avantages et désavantages d’être une île. Vincennes: European Observatory for Plurilingualism. https://www.observatoireplurilinguisme.eu/les-actions/collection-plurilinguisme/17322-sociolinguistique-insulaire-avantages-et-d%C3%A9savantages-d%E2%80%99%C3%AAtre-une-%C3%AEle-ksenija-djordjevic,-fabio-scetti-jean-l%C3%A9o-leonard,-collection-plurilinguisme

Conference Paper (unpublished)

“Documentos português mas ha’u Maubere to’o mate” (I have Portuguese documents but I’m East Timorese until I die) "– An ethnographic study of multilingual hip hop practices and construction of identities in different time-spaces

da Costa Cabral I (2024) “Documentos português mas ha’u Maubere to’o mate” (I have Portuguese documents but I’m East Timorese until I die) "– An ethnographic study of multilingual hip hop practices and construction of identities in different time-spaces. AILA World Congress 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11.08.2024-16.08.2024.

Article

Translanguaging in education

Bonacina-Pugh F, da Costa Cabral I & Huang J (2021) Translanguaging in education. Language Teaching, 54 (4), pp. 439-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444821000173

Article

'As línguas têm de estar no seu devido lugar’ (‘languages have to be in their proper place’): language ideologies, languagised worlds of schooling and multilingual classroom practices in Timor-Leste

da Costa Cabral I (2019) 'As línguas têm de estar no seu devido lugar’ (‘languages have to be in their proper place’): language ideologies, languagised worlds of schooling and multilingual classroom practices in Timor-Leste. Current Issues in Language Planning, 20 (1), pp. 33-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2018.1503388

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