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English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context (2024)
Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (in press). English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278

In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not share English as their first language. However, recent scholarship has emph... Read More about English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context.

“This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students (2024)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (online). “This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students. Innovative Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09712-w

Despite sometimes being considered unworthy of scholarly attention, the study of toilet graffiti, also known as latrinalia, has nevertheless garnered increasing interest among researchers. Graffiti writing still suffers from the stigma of being assoc... Read More about “This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students.

Research and Teaching Integration (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, October). Research and Teaching Integration. Presented at Learning and Teaching ENssentials, Edinburgh Napier University

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June). Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh

Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previous sociocultural and educational contexts. This presentation explores the ex... Read More about Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures.

Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally (2022)
Book
Victoria, M. (Ed.). (2022). Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book sheds light on the ‘unseen’ challenges encountered by qualitative researchers before, during and long after conducting their study. These issues, often shrouded in mystery, are seldom found in academic publications. They tend to remain tuck... Read More about Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally.

What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Smith, D. (2022, June). What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research, Edinburgh Napier University

Food, death and taxes have been claimed by anthropologists as some of the factors that are common to all human beings. Food is considered an important marker of identity and cultural membership (Brulotte & Di Giovine 2014). In this public engagement... Read More about What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality.

Graffiti, Place and Society (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2022, May). Graffiti, Place and Society. Paper presented at TBS Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

‘DON’T KIL URSELF’. ‘ YOU SHALL OVERCOME.’ The impetus for this study comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti around Edinburgh during the covid-19 pandemic. Using walking and photography as data collection methods, I drew... Read More about Graffiti, Place and Society.

Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2021, September). Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research. Paper presented at Doing Research in Applied Linguistics 4, Online

The aim of this presentation is to show how moving across, beyond and through disciplinary boundaries and methodological approaches can open up new ways of seeing and knowing in Applied Linguistics research. The study was conducted at a university in... Read More about Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research.

Introduction: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (2021)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M., & Sangiamchit, C. (2021). Introduction: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom. In M. Victoria, & C. Sangiamchit (Eds.), Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (1-23). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76757-0_1

This chapter explores the notion of interculturality and how it can be effectively integrated in the teaching of English as a foreign/second language. English, the undisputed global lingua franca, is the most widely used language for intercultural co... Read More about Introduction: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom.

Conclusion: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom—Intercultural Approaches and Moving Forward (2021)
Book Chapter
Sangiamchit, C., & Victoria, M. (2021). Conclusion: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom—Intercultural Approaches and Moving Forward. In M. Victoria, & C. Sangiamchit (Eds.), Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (283-294). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76757-0

This chapter highlights the major issues and practical approaches of interculturality in English language teaching. It also sums up the lessons learnt from the contributions to this volume. It proposes future directions for policy, practices and rese... Read More about Conclusion: Interculturality and the English Language Classroom—Intercultural Approaches and Moving Forward.

Toilet Graffiti: Philosophy, pornography or poetry (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Victoria, M. (2021). Toilet Graffiti: Philosophy, pornography or poetry. [The Fringe]. 11 August 2021. (Unpublished)

This was a Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas performance during the Edinburgh Fringe.

The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2009, June). The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective. Paper presented at Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness Conference, Lancaster University

It has been claimed that in some discourse contexts, huge power differential and training philosophy account for the pervasiveness of impoliteness (Culpeper 1996: 359). In this ethnographic-based study of two nursing classrooms in the Philippines, I... Read More about The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective.