#3971. Dancing K-Pop with Chinese and “English in Class Please”: Policy Negotiations as Relational-Languaging Episodes

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Pointing out that language policy negotiations in classroom discourse are an understudied kind of “language-related episode”, and proposing that notion of “meshwork” dissolves a boundary that typically encloses their analysis, this research examines how a rich and indicative example of student group interaction on a university campus becomes interwoven with multiple threads, including: different languages, pop dance moves, coffee from the campus Starbucks, and the teacher’s repeated attempts at English-Medium Instruction policy enforcement. Our example was discovered in corpus recordings of group activities during classes in English for Academic Purposes, then transcribed for embodied activity (primarily speech and gesture) and further explored in relation to the multiple threads which visibly and audibly became involved. Analysis of the episode shows how students’ relational-languaging behaviours must negotiate, respond, and adapt to the policy enforcement.
Keywords:
Language policy; gesture; L2 group interaction; language-related episodes; languaging; meshwork; policy negotiation

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