Dr Anna Becker

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow & Assistant Professor in linguistics researching language issues in comparative and international education, multilingualism, and migration

e-mail: anna.becker@ispan.edu.pl

Website: https://annabecker.weebly.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1818-291X

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Becker-37

Research interests

  • language at the intersection of identity, mobility, and socjety;
  • multilingualism in schools and society;
  • comparative and international education;
  • educational leadership

Membership in scientific bodies

  • Comparative and International Education Society
  • International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning
  • American Association for Applied Linguistics
  • American Educational Research Association
  • European Second Language Association
  • Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics
  • Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training
  • European Cooperation in Science & Technology

Awards and honors

  • Elizabeth Sherman Swing Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (2023)
  • Innovative Curriculum Design in Comparative and International Education Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (2022)

Scholarships

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (2023-2025)
  • Funding for open access publication of dissertation from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2022)

Research projects

  • New multilingual realities in Polish higher education: The negotiation of language practices, identities, and ideologies in Times of unprecedented migration and resurgent nationanlism (2022/45/P/HS2/02547)

Publications

Books

  • Becker, A. (forthcoming). Multilingual Switzerland, monolingual policies or vice versa? Brill.
  • Becker, A. (2023). Identity, power, and prestige in Switzerland’s multilingual education. Transcript.
  • Becker, A. (2021). English in multilingual Switzerland–Mediator or troublemaker? An analysis of lived experiences of language, perspectives on multilingualism, and language education policy in Swiss upper secondary schools. Unpublished doctoral thesis. University of Fribourg.

 

Articles in journals

  • Karges, K.,Hicks, N. S., & Becker, A. (forthcoming). Your 1K is not my 1K: A corpus analysis of lexical levels and proficiency.
  • Pentón Herrera, L. J. & Becker, A. (under review). The hidden curriculum of gender identity in L2 classrooms: Considerations for teachers, textbooks, and students.
  • Becker, A. (under review). Agency and self-concept in Switzerland’s multilingual classrooms.
  • Knoll, A. & Becker, A. (under review). Agency in interactions: How children’s language use contributes to the language ecology in Swiss bilingual German-English daycare centers. International Journal of Multilingualism.
  • Becker, A. (accepted). Applied linguistics Communities of Practice: Improving the research-practice relationship. Applied Linguistics.
  • Becker, A. (2023). ‘[English as a lingua franca] is absolutely out of question!’ – The struggle between globalization and (neo-)nationalism in Switzerland’s upper secondary schools. Language & Education. doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2023.2174805
  • Becker, A. (2022). Teaching Greek as a heritage language in Switzerland: Teachers’ lived experiences of language and education. Zeitschrift für den interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht 27(2), 207-224. org/10.48694/zif.3494
  • Becker, A. (2022). “I’m also trying to figure out the identity of my students.” – Teachers’ multilingual identity negotiation in the heritage language classroom. International Journal of Multilingualism. doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2022.2078328
  • Magno, C., Becker, A., Batkhuyag, B., Denman, B., Kazimzade, E., Mikayilova, U., & Schädeli, D. (2022). Learning through leadership: Capturing practice architectures. International Journal for Academic Development. doi.org/10.1177/17411432221086225
  • Magno, C., Becker, A., & Imboden, M. (2022). Educational practice in Switzerland: Searching for diversity-engaged school leadership. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. org/10.1080/1360144X.2022.2073447
  • Becker, A. & Knoll, A. (2022). Establishing multiple languages in early childhood. Heritage languages and language hierarchies in German-English daycare centers in Switzerland. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25(7), 2561-2572. doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1932719
  • Becker, A. (2021). “I’m always in this conflict” – Students’ struggle of plurilingual identity expression, linguistic insecurity, and assimilation in Switzerland’s educational institutions. European Education 53(1), 15-30. doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2021.1971542
  • Magno, C. & Becker, A. (2021). Making the case for “teaching cases.” Intercultural Education 32(5), 578-582. doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2021.1966915
  • Magno, C. & Becker, A. (2021). Media review of “Entre les murs (The Class)” and “The Hate U Give.” European Education 53(1), 57-60. doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2021.1892955

Book chapters

  • Becker, A., Wong, W., & Magno, C. (forthcoming). The diffracted wave in Comparative and International Education: Toward pluriversal thinking, inclusion, and new conversations. In t. d. jules & F. D. Salajan (Eds.), The cultural turn in comparative and international education: Decolonizing the field in an era of post-humanist pluriverse thinking and racial capitalism.
  • Becker, A. (forthcoming). My dissertation as an assemblage of identities, motivations, and experiences. In L. J. Pentón Herrera (Ed.), More than a title.
  • Becker, A. (under review). ‘You sound like from the CD’ – An autoethnographic narrative about conducting multilingual research in multilingual Switzerland. In Q. Zhang-Wu & B. Goodman (Eds.), Looking inward: Autoethnographic explorations of lived raciolinguistic experiences among multilingual scholars. Multilingual Matters.
  • Becker, A. (accepted). (Inter)national mobility in Swiss higher education: Bilingual policies, multilingual students, and ‘Englishization.’ In T. Mammadova (Ed.), International student mobility: Towards new goals and challenges. Routledge.
  • Magno, C. & Becker, A. (2022). Educational leaders becoming: A virtual community of practice as assemblage(s). In F. D. Salajan & T. D. Jules (Eds.), Comparative and international education (re)assembled: Post-foundational reconceptualizations of an interdisciplinary field (pp. 167-182). Bloomsbury.
  • Becker, A. & Magno, C. (2022). Cognitive migration through language: Capturing linguistic movement and barriers in language portraits. In C. Magno, J. Lew, & S. Rodriguez (Eds.), (Re)Mapping migration and education: Centering methods and methodologies (pp. 134-157). Brill.

Other publications

Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

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