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Autor/in | Sutton, Peter |
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Titel | Educational language planning and linguistic identity. |
Quelle | In: International review of education, (1991) 1, S.133-147Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0020-8566 |
DOI | 10.1007/BF00598172 |
Schlagwörter | Standard Form; Foreign Language; Linguistic Variation; Mother Tongue; Language Teaching |
Abstract | Abstract There are cases in which a “high” form of a language is taught and used in formal situations, but linguistic variation is also caused by geography, ethnicity and socioeconomic class. Certain variants are regarded as inferior and restricted in expressive capacity, and are disadvantageous. The paper suggests that it is possible to map each person's linguistic identity in two dimensions: the number of languages spoken, and the situation-specific variants of each language. Further, it is argued that the distance between a “low” variant and a “high” standard form of a language may present to the “low” learner of a standardized mother tongue a barrier just as great as that posed by the learning of a related foreign language to a speaker of the high variant. It is proposed that greater tolerance be exercised in acceptance of variation and in recognition of linguistic identity, so that this can be built on in the necessary and desirable expansion of linguistic competence, rather than being devalued. The relevance of the communicative approach to language teaching is touched on. |
Erfasst von | OLC |
Update | 2023/2/05 |