scholarly journals Pohnpei sohte ehu: A survey- and interview-based approached to language attitudes on Pohnpei

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Rentz
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Hierarchical Modeling ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Local Languages

This dissertation provides an analysis of language attitudes of 1.3% of the adult population of the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It presents both quantitative survey and qualitative interview data collected July–August 2016 and July–August 2017. The results are situated within a poststructuralist, postcolonial theoretical framework that critically evaluates the colonial history of the island and its ideological effects on language use, as well as highlighting the diversity of opinions found on the island. Because of this framework, the dissertation does not aim to construct a monolithic narrative of language attitudes on Pohnpei, but rather seeks diversity wherever possible. To carry out these goals, the dissertation adapts quantitative methods (multidimensional scaling, cluster analyses, correspondence analysis, and poststratified Bayesian generalized hierarchical modeling) and combines them with critical theoretical tools such as sociolinguistic scale and translanguaging. The results showed two main different ideological groups both in terms of language use and language attitude patterns. Both groups highly value Pohnpeian, English, and other local languages generally. However, the first group values English over Pohnpeian and other local languages. They in general only use Pohnpeian to connect with Pohnpeians and in situations related to the soupeidi system, but use English for most other situations including education, work, media, and government. This group’s language use patterns with scale-based language ideologies, where local levels of scale (such as family and kousapw) are highly multilingual, but become increasingly monolingual as scale increases toward the translocal level. The other group, conversely, finds Pohnpeian to be the most important language for them overall and tend to find Pohnpeian to be the most important language in every domain. The results of the dissertation indicate a disconnect between the current mostly monolingual English-focused educational practices among both private and public schools on Pohnpei and the desire of the research participants for greater use of Pohnpeian and other local languages. The current educational system likewise devalues the symbolic resources of its students, which has perpetuated negative ideologies about local languages. These ideologies adversely affect both the students and the linguistic future of local languages including Pohnpeian.

scholarly journals Language Use and Language Attitudes of Sumbawanese Speakers in Bali

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
Sebastianus Menggo ◽  
I Made Suastra
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Data Series ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Maintenance Model

This study examines the language maintenance model for a local language in another language community, specifically to examine Sumbawanese language maintenance in the Balinese community. This study encompasses 1) the Sumbawanese speakers’ competence of Sumbawanese language; 2) Sumbawanese language use patterns in the Balinese community; 3) language attitudes of Sumbawanese speakers toward their language. This study focuses on Denpasar's several locations, where most of the language interaction occurred, and data were collected through observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Those data were analyzed by using a software program, namely an excel chart data series. The research subjects were both older and younger Sumbawanese speakers. An analysis of language attitudes also considered the roles of language choice and language change in maintaining cultural diversity and ethnic identity, which will psychologically provide a feeling of assurance in personal linguistic competence. In Sumbawanese speakers, the context of communicating in Balinese society will be thoroughly considered. The findings show that speakers of Sumbawa language have good competence towards Sumbawa language, rarely use Sumbawa language, and have more positive than negative attitudes towards their language. Speakers are stimulated to maintain the frequency of language use and their positive language attitudes to be competent intercultural speakers.  Keywords: Balinese, language use, language attitude, language change, Sumbawanese

scholarly journals THE ATTITUDE OF MOTHERS IN REVITALIZING PUNJABI LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY OF THE PUNJABI COMMUNITY IN MANJUNG DISTRICT, PERAK

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Deepa Visvanathan
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Shed Light

Punjabi is a small minority community in Malaysia among the approximately two million Indians in Malaysia. Punjabi people remain distinct from other people of Indian origins because of their religious beliefs and a strong sense of community. In the context of Malaysia, studies about the Punjabi community have not been encouraging and very minimal. As the Punjabi in Malaysia becomes more educated, the Punjabi community, which has long been undergoing a gradual shift into modern Malaysian society, and less emphasis is being placed on the ability to read and write Punjabi. The aim of this study is to obtain an overview of the language use patterns and language attitudes of Malaysian Punjabi mothers with the presence of their children. Specifically, the objective is to shed light on the importance of promoting Punjabi in the home domain by investigating whether the education and attitude of the mothers bring on the value of speaking the Punjabi language to their children in the home domain. A total of 11 respondents aged between 25 and 44 with children at or within the age of 6 were interviewed. One of the most significant findings of this study is the mismatch between language attitudes and actual language use by mothers with their children. The awareness exists in the mothers that Punjabi is important to their children to communicate with old age people and the Punjabi language is being used to do their prayers and to read their holy book. However, this positive attitude towards the language is not reflected in their language use and choice regardless of their education level. English dominated in most instances and most of the mothers claimed to be more comfortable speaking to their children in English.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDE ON THE MAINTENANCE OF COMMUNITY LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY MIGRANT STUDENTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leni Amalia Suek
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Class Session ◽  
Language Program ◽  
Migrant Students ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Community Language

The maintenance of community languages of migrant students is heavily determined by language use and language attitudes. The superiority of a dominant language over a community language contributes to attitudes of migrant students toward their native languages. When they perceive their native languages as unimportant language, they will reduce the frequency of using that language even though at home domain. Solutions provided for a problem of maintaining community languages should be related to language use and attitudes of community languages, which are developed mostly in two important domains, school and family. Hence, the valorization of community language should be promoted not only in family but also school domains. Several programs such as community language school and community language program can be used for migrant students to practice and use their native languages. Since educational resources such as class session, teachers and government support are limited; family plays significant roles to stimulate positive attitudes toward community language and also to develop the use of native languages.

Language attitudes of the Vietnamese in Melbourne

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai N. Pham
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Vietnamese Immigrants ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Private And Public

Abstract This study is an attempt to investigate language attitudes of the older and younger generations of Vietnamese bilingual adults in Melbourne, in relation to their ethnicity in the Australian context and in the light of the historical background of the Vietnamese immigrants in Australia. A survey of 165 Vietnamese bilingual adults and students in Melbourne was carried out to investigate their language use in private and public domains, their appraisal of English and Vietnamese, their attitudes towards Vietnamese language maintenance, acculturation, and the question of their ethnic identity in Australian society. The results of the findings reveal that there is a significant difference between adults and students in various aspects of their language attitudes. Overall their choice of language use in private and public domains varies with situations and interlocutors. Although both groups show positive attitudes towards the appraisal of Vietnamese, the maintenance of Vietnamese language and culture and the retaining of their ethnic identity, what is significant is that students demonstrate stronger positive attitudes than adults. With regard to factors that influence the maintenance of Vietnamese, while adults think that government language policy is the most important factor, students express their confidence in the ability of the Vietnamese themselves to maintain their language.

scholarly journals Analysis of Job Motivation for Secondary School Teachers of Private and Public Schools in (Punjab) Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Danial Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Private And Public

The aim of this research is to explore various issues of motivation for the secondary school teachers of private and public schools. The study also discovers the implementation plans that can be used in order to have highly motivated teachers. In this research qualitative and quantitative methods have been used by the researchers where survey has been conducted in public and private schools. Likert scale is used in quantitative method. Primary data has been collected through questionnaire and interviews. Data was analysed by using t-test in SPSS software. The major findings which researchers found in conducting the research are; Salary is not given to them according to their qualification and workload they have to bear in schools and they seldom enjoy the benefits and monitory packages, Enough resources are not provided to them to work properly, There are alot of students in the class rooms due to which teachers are unable to handle the class and to produce quality work, They are not treated well due to personal biasness and attitude of management, Development programs are not satisfactory. They don’t find it beneficial for their career development

The spread of Putonghua and language attitude changes in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minglang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Indirect Measurement ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Cross Variety ◽  
Attitude Changes

This study measures languages attitudes of 82 college students in Shanghai and Guangzhou, where language planning has promoted Putonghua (PTH) over local varieties since 1956. Since the 1980s, industrialization, commercialization, and greater demographic mobility have changed what used to be homogeneous local variety speech communities, resulting in greater demand for PTH in cross-variety communication. Do language attitudes change with greater demand for PTH? A direct measurement shows that the Shanghainese and Cantonese are largely similar in language use but differ in language attitudes: instrumental motivation and impressions of stereotyped PTH speakers correlate differently with language use for these groups. An indirect measurement indicates that, because of low social distance, the Shanghainese and Cantonese as whole groups preferred neither PTH nor their respective local varieties, though the Shanghainese females significantly upgraded PTH on both social status and group solidarity, while the Shanghainese males upgraded Shanghainese. These findings do not conform well to the textbook-case dichotomy found in early studies between high and low varieties on the dimensions of social status and solidarity. The nonconforming language attitudes may represent attitude changes amid emerging patterns of language use in these two Pacific cities.

Language attitudes toward Northeastern Mandarin and Putonghua (PTH) by young professionals

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunsheng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Personal Qualities

This study examines the language attitudes of young professionals in three cities in China towards Northeastern Mandarin (NEM) and Putonghua (PTH) (i.e., the standard language in China). It confirms that NEM has lower status as compared to PTH. However, the young professionals in Northeast China rated the NEM speaker higher than the PTH speaker in most qualities, attesting to the empathy and solidarity of native speakers toward their own variety of language. The northeastern professionals also rated the NEM speaker lower in some personal qualities, implying that the northeastern professionals’ awareness of the stereotypes associated with NEM and the prestige associated with PTH. The findings show that language attitude is directly linked to socio-economic status and that speakers of the low variety of a language may develop complicated language attitudes when negotiating their language use and identity in social interaction.

Gender, language attitudes, and language status in Ukraine

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAADA BILANIUK
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Economic Motives

This article examines gender and language in post-Soviet Ukraine, where language laws and turbulent socioeconomic changes are affecting language use. It discusses ideologies of gender, language, and ethnicity in Ukraine and assesses the significance of gender in shaping stances toward three competing languages, Ukrainian, Russian, and English. The analysis focuses on language ideologies and attitudes, based on survey and matched-guise language attitude test data. Two kinds of explanations for the gendered patterning are considered: first, how socialization and cultural ideologies of women's relationship to language shape the attitudes documented; and second, how political/economic forces (differences in possibilities for social power and social advancement linked to language use) lead men and women to benefit from different strategies in their use and valuation of linguistic capital. It is shown that, while sociocultural and political/economic forces reinforce each other in some cases, in others they contradict each other, with economic motives prevailing over cultural paradigms of traditionalism.

scholarly journals LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF BUGINESE SPEAKERS IN BANDUNG

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusdiansyah Rusdiansyah ◽  
Isnendes Retty
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Language Area

The aim of this study is to explain the shift in Buginese of the students in Bandung.This is related to the students' language attitude towards Buginese. The use and attitude of language in minority languages in the majority language area is one aspect that influences shifting a language. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. Research subjects are students from South Sulawesi who are studying in Bandung who are Bugis speakers. The results of this research show that the pattern of language use is dominated by Indonesian when communicating with friends in their area. Although dominated by Indonesian, the use of the Buginese is still used, though not as much as the use of Indonesian. Their language attitude is very positive towards Buginese, but the facts in the field are different from the language attitude, because they are more dominant in using Indonesian than Buginese. This study concluded that the positive attitude of students towards Buginese had no effect on the use of their Buginese. Language preservation depends on the quality of language use in everyday life. The use of Buginese in students in Bandung is relatively low. Students do not maintain their identity as speakers of the Buginese when communicating with each other, thus causing the Buginese to be displaced by Indonesian.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN DAN PERGESERAN BAHASA MASYARAKAT BELU DI KECAMATAN TASIFETO TIMUR (The Language Use and Language Shift of Belu Community at The East Tasifeto Districts)

Kandai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Dewi Nastiti Lestariningsih
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Local Languages ◽  
At Home

The result presented in this paper is the result of a survey conducted by Subbidang Tenaga Kebahasaan, Bidang Pembelajaran, Pusat Pembinaan, Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa in 2016. In general, the survey aims to provide an overview of the language situation that includes language attitude also a description of the use of Indonesian, local languages, and foreign languages in the border region of the NTT and Timor Leste. The survey on the use of the Indonesian language, local languages, and foreign languages is done by quantitative and qualitative methods based on a questionnaire of language use and language attitude. In general, language speakers in the district of Belu admit that their attitude show loyalty to the Indonesian. Based on the results of research, the Indonesian language use has been done in the formal situastion and public space. Another interesting thing that we have found in the language use is the language shift from local languages to Indonesian language. This is shown by the use of Indonesian language by the respondents (productive age) when communicating to their children at home. The factors influencing language shift due to social factors. The handling efforts tend to be the local language learning at home and the elementary level in school.  

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