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Greyson Xiao

@gengqixiao.bsky.social
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PhD student in SLA at UW-Madison exploring language, race, & power in education; he/他; 🇨🇳🏳️‍🌈

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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Celebrating @gengqixiao.bsky.social for publishing “Toward a Theory of (Trans)Bordering in Language Education in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies!” It offers a new framework for understanding how language learners & teachers negotiate, challenge, & reshape linguistic & institutional boundaries
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Toward a theory of (trans)bordering in language education
In this conceptual essay, I reflect on the development of translanguaging research over the past decades, highlighting its theoretical advancement and pedagogical shortcomings. While translanguagin...
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Let’s try to understand race in a global way. In our new piece in Educational Researcher, Jing Yu and I revisit CRT and raciolinguistics through a transnational lens. Race travels. It is reshaped across borders. Socialization itself is racialization. doi.org/10.3102/0013...
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Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Early view paper available open access ! 🙌 Read Xiao, Wang and Ying's study of how language becomes a marker of racialised belonging and exclusion for Chinese international students pre- and post-migration to the US 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts
This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on…
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts
This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on semistru....
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“This refusal is consistent with Bad Bunny’s career-long rejection of the idea that global success requires crossing over into English. Instead, he has always invited those who do not speak Spanish to cross over themselves—to feel the rhythm, move with the music,and perhaps even learn a few words”
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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
So proud of my student @gengqixiao.bsky.social and his coauthors! Their new article in the Journal of Sociolinguistics offers a sharp contribution to second language acquisition research, showing how language learning is shaped by identity, ideologies, and social interaction.
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Transnationalizing Raciolinguistics: An Intersectional Analysis for Understanding Chinese International Students’ Language Ideologies Across Contexts
This study adopts a transnational raciolinguistic perspective to examine how Chinese international students (CISs) navigate language, race, and identity across borders and contexts. Based on semistru...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In my latest blog post I think through how ICE agents targeting immersion schools in Minneapolis connect to a broader collapse of neoliberal multiculturalism and what we should do about it. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...
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ICE, Immersion Schools and the Collapse of Neoliberal Multiculturalism
According to media reports and social media posts, ICE agents, as part of their ongoing siege on Minneapolis, appear to be specifically targeting Spanish and Chinese immersion preschools and elemen…
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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
So proud of my doctoral student Gengqi Xiao! His new article “Translanguaging Silence and Humor” just published in The Modern Language Journal examines how multilingual speakers use silence, timing, & playful creativity as communicative resources. Beautiful work pushing the field of SLA forward. 🎉
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<em>The Modern Language Journal</em> | NFMLTA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article adopts a translanguaging and flows perspective to explore how a graduate course instructor constructs a “quiet student” identity through a historical speech event to explain academic con...
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I’m glad to share that my new article is now published open access. The study examines how constructed identities mediate meaning-making in English-medium instruction, and how silence and humor constitute translanguaging spaces in classroom interaction. doi.org/10.1111/modl...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 14/07/2023
So @DrJonathanRosa and I had the opportunity to work with an amazing undergrad & high school student to adapt an article for high school students. I told them they should do a tik tok and this is what they made. I was assured that the tik tok genre is fragmented postmodernism 😂
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable." educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
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Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
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Masaru Yamamoto @masaruy810.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Xiao, G. (2025). Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom. Applied Linguistics, amaf062. doi.org/10.1093/appl...
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Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom
Abstract. This study examines how an applied linguistics graduate course instructor socializes students into academic concepts and norms in a graduate TESO
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I’m delighted to share that my new article is out in Applied Linguistics! In this piece, I introduce the idea of (trans)bordering — a semiotic process in which we create and negotiate borders that define acceptable practices and norms. 
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Rethinking translanguaging: (Trans)bordering, spatiality, and academic discourse socialization in a graduate TESOL classroom
Abstract. This study examines how an applied linguistics graduate course instructor socializes students into academic concepts and norms in a graduate TESO
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Excited to share my review of @nelsonlflores.bsky.social's new book! This work traces how bilingual education shaped by raciolinguistic ideologies has often reinforced the hierarchies it seeks to dismantle. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in social justice and equity in education.
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Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Published in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you so much for the opportunity and support!
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I have a new blog post that tries to lay out just what is at stake with Trump's attempted fascist takeover of higher education. Check it out and share widely! educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/t...
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This Is How a Democracy Dies—One University at a Time
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump didn’t exactly hide what he was planning. He said he’d take control of higher education—and in the 100+ days since his second inauguration, he’s been …
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
They don’t went POC, women, LGBTQ or international students at elite US universities. When they claim a desire tor meritocracy what they mean is hoarding resources for themselves.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
R1 institutions: Publish or perish. You: Publish tons. R1 institutions: Be an excellent teacher. You: Win a teaching award. R1 institutions: We don’t like you anyway so will find whatever reason we want to deny you tenure.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
When I was a gay kid the government was letting gay people die When I was a bilingual teacher the government was dismantling bilingual education Now that I am a researcher of race the government is coming for DEI The government has always attacked people like me And I have always resisted
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LJ Randolph Jr @proferandolph.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I’ve been thinking and writing a lot about abolition, liberation, and curricular justice in the field of world language education. I’m honored and excited to share and reflect on this topic during my plenary at the upcoming AAAL conference. I hope you’ll join me! www.aaal.org/events/aaal-...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
For me the more relevant linguistic distinction is not between monolingual and multilingual people but rather between those whose linguistic border crossing is marked as a first step to policing them and those whose linguistic border crossing remains unmarked or even celebrated as innovative.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
RIP "Our research shows that the primary reason for the failure of the school to educate black children...[is that]...the stereotype the teacher already has about black children is triggered into action by the teacher's unconscious reaction to the child's speech and behavior" -William Labov, 1979
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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Language education has to involve unsettling all of the oppressive language ideologies which state that there is a singular way to use a language.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I am pleased to announce the release of a white paper I wrote on culturally relevant and sustaining education for Latinx students. I am grateful to the Spencer Foundation and my co-author Lupita Barrientos for their support. spencerfoundation.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/store/af7917...
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thank you @nelsonlflores.bsky.social for your support and inspiration! 😊
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Congratulations to @gengqixiao.bsky.social for this new article that was inspired in part by the “Language Diversity and Education” course he took with me a few years ago. You should all check it out! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TD76J...
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Countering linguistic borders through translanguaging practices in a multilingual US secondary school
While translanguaging pedagogy has been largely studied in bilingual classrooms, there is a paucity of research examining practices in multilingual secondary contexts. To fill this lacuna, this stu...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Jonathan Rosa and I had the amazing opportunity to work with an undergraduate student and a high school student to "translate" our "Undoing Appropriateness" article for high school students. The final product is available for free here: demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/lan...
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Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem – Demystifying Language Project
Students of color are always being told that they need to change the way they speak. But what if, instead, educators changed the way they listen?
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
After many delays by book Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era is finally available for preorder: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Human Verification
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Hannah Lukow @hannahlukow.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Are you teaching undergraduate students in a language-related course this semester? Or, do you know some undergraduate students interested in language? If so, I'd appreciate you sharing some info about a study I'm doing on podcasting and critical language awareness! bit.ly/psuplp
Graphic with information about a research study for undergraduates. Participants are eligible if they are 18 years or older, an undergraduate student, and they are studying in the US. They will be asked to listen to a 25-minute podcast and take two short surveys. It will take one hour or less.
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Glad to share my review of this book! If you’re looking to understand and counter raciolinguistic ideologies in your context, check it out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
just published open access in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics - new work which pushes for transformative justice, abolition, the ending of linguist-police collaborations, and reconceptualisations of 'impact' work in applied linguistics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
coming soon in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ↓
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LJ Randolph Jr @proferandolph.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Very excited to have worked with the wonderful Aris Clemons to contribute this chapter to Padilla and Vana’s edited volume Representation, Inclusion, and Social Justice in World Language Teaching ✊🏾
Randolph, L. J. , Jr., & Clemons, A. M. (2024). Black languaging as antiracist pedagogy in the world language classroom. In L. Padilla & R. Vana (Eds.), Representation, inclusion and social justice in world language teaching: Research and pedagogy for inclusive classrooms (pp. 122-141). Routledge.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
the devaluing of someone's language is a devaluing of their life itself. linguistic justice is always about more than language.
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
tiered vocabulary emerged from a series of experiments by academics on mostly Black children living in poverty in 1980s USA. 40 years later, it’s firmly embedded into England’s education system. here’s a critique of what it is and how it was sold to policy makers and teachers 👇
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
A meme of Cardi B as a child that says “my momma said appropriateness-based approaches to language education maintain white supremacy.”
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Raciolinguistic ideologies that link particular named languages with full humanity and other named languages with subhumanity can literally be the difference between life and death apple.news/ApsddIZ6uRRK...
A quote from the linked article that reads:
Two of the hostages were killed immediately, and the third ran back inside the building. “A cry for help was heard in Hebrew, and immediately the battalion commander ordered a ceasefire,” the official said. But another soldier fired despite the order, killing the third hostage.”
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
I had the opportunity to respond to Philipp Angermeyer's recent article on discrimination in translation (doi.org/10.1017/S004...) that takes up his invitation to further delve into a raciolinguistic perspective on translation & interpretation (doi.org/10.1017/S004...). You should check them out.
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Toward a raciolinguistic perspective on translation and interpretation - Volume 52 Issue 5
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
My latest collaboration with Jonathan Rosa cautions against an uncritical embrace of the term “raciolinguistics” that may inadvertently continue to silo discussions of race from “real” linguistics while essentializing race and language in troublesome ways. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Undoing raciolinguistics
In this commentary, we discuss common pitfalls associated with the study of race and language, focusing specifically on the recent emergence of raciolinguistics as a frame for these efforts. We exami....
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
One of the reasons language is so interesting to study is because people often have such strong rigid and conservatives ideas about what language is and how people should use it that completely contradict the fluidity and creativity of what they and others actually do with it.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Next month I will be giving a talk at American University in DC entitled “A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of the Self”
A flyer for the Hugo J. Mueller Linguistic Lecture Series Inaugural Address hosted by the World Languages & Cultures Linguistics Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University.
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Greyson Xiao @gengqixiao.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Outsider does not only mean novice. It exists in the moment when we’re marginalized, when we’re ignored, when our voices aren’t heard, when our identities aren’t liked, when we’re kept outside the door… So we decide to enter the academia.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
AAAL Graduate Student Council is hosting a free webinar entitled "Things I Wish I Knew In My Early Years as a Graduate Student." You can register here: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Chris Chang-Bacon @chrischangbacon.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
What if schools approached language difference with fascination rather than frustration? What if we used discourse analysis as a tool for student writing feedback instead of the dreaded “red pen?” Excited to release this collaboration with Joelle Pedersen! authors.elsevier.com/a/1hgGI3CKC-...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
I had the honor to respond to Kris Knisely’s recent article “Gender Justice Beyond Inclusion” where I express appreciation for his push to center trans people in discussions of translanguaging. Since we don’t have DMs message below if you need access to it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Undoing cislingualism
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Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
The systemic language discrimination which takes place in schools doesn't mean that the system is broken - it means that the system is working exactly as it was designed to do so. Schools are designed to actively maintain the raciolinguistic status quo.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
The common idea that “kids are sponges” has done great harm to education in general and language education in particular. It perpetuates the idea that kids passively absorb information. But they don’t. They actively reconstruct it in ways that reflect their unique experiences.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22/07/2023
Appropriateness-based approaches to language education are not progressive. They told me I should sound less Latino, less gay, less Philly, less me when “appropriate.” Marginalized people being told to be less themselves when “appropriate” is oppression. Period.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
You should check our my latest collaboration with Jonathan Rosa “Rethinking Language Barriers & Social Justice from a Raciolinguistic Perspective” where we manage to make references to both Star Trek and My Fair Lady 🤗 www.amacad.org/sites/defaul...
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