Translanguaging silence and humor: Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English-medium classroom in the United States

[Kevin W. H. Tai (Prof.)]

[Message from Gengqi Xiao]

I’m glad to share that my new article is now published open access in The Modern Language Journal!

The study examines how constructed identities mediate meaning-making in English-medium instruction, and how silence and humour constitute translanguaging spaces in classroom interaction.

Open Access Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.70024 

Professor Kevin W. H. Tai

PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRSA  

Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education

Co-Director, Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education

Faculty of Education 

The University of Hong Kong

Honorary Research Fellow, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London

Editor, The Language Learning Journal (Routledge) 

Associate Editor, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Routledge)

Executive Guest Editor, International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley) 

The World's Top 1% Scholar and HKU Scholar in the Top 1%, Clarivate Analytics, 2025

The World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientist (Languages and Linguistics), Stanford University, 2024 and 2025 (Elsevier)

Email (HKU): kevi...@hku.hk  

Email (UCL): kevi...@ucl.ac.uk  

Telephone: (852) 3917 6107  

Website: https://web.edu.hku.hk/faculty-academics/kwhtai