Language Policy in a Multilingual Crèche in France: How Is Language Policy Linked to Language Acquisition Beliefs?

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-79
Author(s):  
Eloise Caporal-Ebersold
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Policy

Using lexical variables to identify language ideologies in a policy corpus

Corpora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Educational Language Policy ◽  
Group Variation ◽  
Policy Texts

Though theorised as important objects of inquiry, language ideologies – beliefs about the roles of language in society – are difficult to identify from texts because of their covert nature. Language ideologies of institutions are thought to have particular power with respect to subsequent policy development at micro- and macro levels. This study applies an inductive, corpus-based approach to identify language ideologies in a corpus of language policy texts using lexical items as variables. A corpus of more than one-million words of educational language policy texts from the 2010 Arizona Department of Education website was explored using collocate and factor analysis. The resulting solution accounted for 47.48 percent of the variance investigated. Five language ideology factors were identified and interpreted using quantitative and qualitative techniques: ‘written language as measurably communicative’, ‘language acquisition as systematically metalinguistic and monolingual’, ‘academic language as standard and informational’, ‘language acquisition as a process of decoding meaning’ and ‘nativeness of language skills as marking group variation’. The findings (a) present likely ideological stances of the Department of Education in a state where educational language policy development has been robust in recent years, and (b) validate the somewhat novel methodological approach used in this study.

scholarly journals Η γλωσσική ανάπτυξη δίγλωσσων παιδιών και η σχέση της με την οικογενειακή γλωσσική πολιτική: Έρευνα σε αλβανικές οικογένειες στην περιοχή της Φλώρινας

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Χριστίνα Μαλιγκούδη ◽  
Ειρήνη Κωτοπούλου
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Family Language

Στη σύγχρονη ελληνική κοινωνία είναι συχνό το φαινόμενο των πολύγλωσσων οικογενειών εξαιτίας παραγόντων όπως μετακίνησης, μετανάστευσης, προσφυγιάς κ.λπ. Οι διεπιδράσεις σε πολύγλωσσες οικογένειες βρίσκονται στο σταυροδρόμι μεταξύ γλωσσικής πολιτικής και δίγλωσσης ανάπτυξης των παιδιών (Van Mensel, 2018) και για αυτό στη σύγχρονη βιβλιογραφία η οικογενειακή γλωσσική πολιτική (family language policy) έχει συνδεθεί στενά με το ερευνητικό πεδίο της κατάκτησης δεύτερης γλώσσας (second language acquisition), καθώς υπάρχει ανάγκη για αναθεώρηση της φύσης της γλωσσικής εκμάθησης μέσα σε έναν πολύγλωσσο κόσμο (Higgins, 2018). Το παρόν άρθρο διερευνά τις στάσεις και πρακτικές έξι οικογενειών (γονέων και παιδιών) που ζουν στη Φλώρινα και έχουν αλβανική καταγωγή, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στις γλωσσικές πρακτικές, επιλογές και ιδεολογίες τους που φαίνεται ότι επηρεάζουν τη γλωσσική ανάπτυξη των παιδιών τους.

Defining Multilingualism

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasone Cenoz
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Societal Perspective ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This article looks at the definitions and scope of multilingualism and the different perspectives used in its study. Multilingualism is a very common phenomenon that has received much scholarly attention in recent years. Multilingualism is also an interdisciplinary phenomenon that can be studied from both an individual and a societal perspective. In this article, several dimensions of multilingualism are considered, and different types of multilingualism are discussed. The article summarizes the themes researched in various areas of the study of multilingualism such as neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistics, education, sociolinguistics, and language policy. These areas look at language acquisition and language processing as well as the use of different languages in social contexts and adopt a variety of research methodologies. The last section of the article compares monolingual and holistic perspectives in the study of multilingualism, paying special attention to new approaches developed in the past few years that argue for establishing more fluid boundaries between languages.

scholarly journals Übergänge zur Schriftlichkeit. Zu wechselnden Profilen dialektaler Literalität am Beispiel des Niederdeutschen

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Langhanke
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Language Use ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
Low German ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The 19Th Century

Different types of Low German literacy create varieties in addition to spoken Low German. Their function differs according to the change of language use. By setting the focus on dialectal literature it becomes clear, which concepts of Low German literature became influential since the 19th century. In the recent situation, new perspectives for Low German and its literature can be found in the field of planned language acquisition for example at school. Therefore written forms of Low German become much more important than usually thought of by looking at the ideas of language policy and the development at schools in Northern Germany.

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