"Speak English": A Comment on English Language Instruction in an Era of Neo-Nationalism

Autor/inn/en	Eger, Maureen A.; Valdez, Sarah
Titel	"Speak English": A Comment on English Language Instruction in an Era of Neo-Nationalism
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 57 (2023) 3, S.969-981 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Eger, Maureen A.) ORCID (Valdez, Sarah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
DOI	10.1002/tesq.3250
Schlagwörter	Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Nationalism; Politics of Education; Language Role; Social Attitudes; Official Languages; Cultural Maintenance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Nationalismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Office language; Amtssprache
Abstract	Previous research on neo-nationalism has largely focused on the political arena, analyzing voters, parties, and policies. The scholarship featured in this special issue moves beyond the analysis of neo-nationalism in contemporary politics to show how the ideology is enacted at the micro level. The stage for these dynamic interactions is educational settings related to the teaching of English. In this article, we comment on this new research that illustrates the variety of ways English language instruction can either advance or combat neo-nationalism. Despite the diversity of roles that English plays across different geographic and national-level contexts, this corpus of work makes evident the importance of language in maintaining national group boundaries. Inspired by this knowledge, we use data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) to explore how attitudes about speaking the national language are related to neo-nationalist stances cross-nationally. Our findings, which echo the micro-level evidence presented in the special issue, show that national languages are inextricably linked to the maintenance of national group boundaries and associated with neo-nationalist concerns about the erosion of national culture, economy, and political institutions due to perceived foreign threats. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01