Languages Discourses in Australian Middle-Class Schools: Parent and Student Perspectives

Autor/inn/en	Wright, Jan; Cruickshank, Ken; Black, Stephen
Titel	Languages Discourses in Australian Middle-Class Schools: Parent and Student Perspectives
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (2018) 1, S.98-112 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2016.1232536
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Middle Class; Middle Class Culture; Parent Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Second Language Learning; Decision Making; Cultural Pluralism; Working Class; Comparative Analysis; Language Planning; Cultural Capital; Social Capital; Sociolinguistics; High Schools; Semi Structured Interviews; Data Analysis; Case Studies; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Mittelschicht; Elternverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Kulturpluralismus; Arbeiterklasse; Sprachwechsel; Sozialkapital; Soziolinguistik; High school; Oberschule; Auswertung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Australien
Abstract	Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class schools in Australia to demonstrate how a complex amalgam of elite, cultural identity and/or trade language discourses came into play to explain the choice (or not) to study a language and the choice of specific languages. For many of the parents languages provided a limited form of "civic multiculturalism", as a means of better understanding and respecting the "other". We argue that the value attributed to high status languages via this discourse, means their continued presence in schools hoping to attract middle-class parents, but their relative absence in schools with largely working-class populations, where more "practical" concerns dominate. (As Provided).
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