Multilingualism, Beliefs about Language, and Language Use in the Family

Autor/inn/en	Ndzotom Mbakop, Antoine Willy; Kamgang Ndada, Alex
Titel	Multilingualism, Beliefs about Language, and Language Use in the Family
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 18 (2021) 1, S.128-152 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ndzotom Mbakop, Antoine Willy)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2019.1678625
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Language Usage; Correlation; Language Maintenance; Family Relationship; Language Skill Attrition; Language Attitudes; Native Language; Language Acquisition; Second Language Learning; African Languages; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Learning Motivation; Personality Traits; Language Aptitude; Questionnaires; Cameroon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachgebrauch; Korrelation; Sprachpflege; Sprachverfall; Sprachverhalten; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Fragebogen; Kamerun
Abstract	Attempts to prevent language endangerment seem to have overlooked how families proceed in surrendering the language whose intergenerational transmission is their main responsibility. The present paper envisages language maintenance or loss from the vantage point that beliefs about language are the main referents of language use in the family in multilingual settings, and can, therefore, explain the protracting process of language death. The data were collected through a questionnaire adapted from the BALLI [Horwitz, E. K. (1988). The beliefs about language learning of beginning university foreign language students. "Modern Language Journal," 72(3), 283-294.], which was administered in fifty families. These were then analysed through a logistical regression. The findings revealed, among many other things, a strong correlation between the referents people attribute to their indigenous languages and the likelihood of the use of those languages with their children. Some of these included ethnic language acquisition difficulty, the nature of mother tongue acquisition, transmission strategies, acquisition aptitude, and reward. Negative beliefs about indigenous languages, as well as lack of language consciousness as underscored by this study are real matters for concern as these beliefs, more than any other external factor, may accelerate the vanishing of indigenous languages in the world. (As Provided).
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