BA (Hons.); PGCE; M.Ed; PhD

Research and Projects Interests

Research interests and publications are situated in the following areas: multilingualism; linguistic ethnography; education of linguistic minority students; multilingual literacies; language ideologies; discursive negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts; critical discourse analysis; language testing, citizenship, and immigration’

Funded research

ESRC - March, 2006 - August, 2007 (£208,000)

Investigating multilingualism in complementary schools in four communities (ESRC, RES-000-23-1180) With Angela Creese, Vally Lytra, Peter Martin and Li Wei.

Publications (selection)

Blackledge, AJ and Creese, A. (2008) (forthcoming) Contesting ‘language’ as ‘heritage’: Negotiation of identities in late modernity. Applied Linguistics 29 (4).

Blackledge, AJ. (2008) Language ecology and language ideology. 27-40 In Creese, A. and Martin, P. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Education vol. 9. Ecology of Language. Heidelberg, Kluwer. ISBN: 9780-387-32875-1.

Blackledge, AJ. (2008) Critical discourse analysis. In Li Wei and Moyer, M. (eds.) Blackwell Guide To Research Methods in Bilingualism. Oxford, Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405179003

Blackledge, AJ. (2008) Liberalism, discrimination and the law: Language testing for citizenship in Britain. In Rings, G. and Ife, A. Neo-colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language and Discourse in the Construction of Identities. ISBN-13: 978-1847185129

Blackledge AJ. (2005) Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World, 15, Amsterdam, John Benjamin, 252 pps, ISBN: 9027227055.

Pavlenko, A. and Blackledge, A. (editors.) (2004) Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters. 312 pp. ISBN 1-85359-647-7

Publications 2001 - 2008 [complete, pdf]

Publications pre-2001 [pdf]