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Young Turkish Cypriots' Perceptions of Non-Standard Varieties and Their Speakers: Learning 'Posh' Turkish in Complementary Schools
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Çise Çavusoglu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The current study aims to provide an understanding of how the relationships between standard and non-standard varieties of the Turkish language are perceived by young people of Turkish Cypriot descent within the context of Turkish complementary schools in London. These schools are set up by diasporic communities to fight/reverse language shift and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Turkish, Community Schools, Ethnography
Language Ideologies, the Soft G, and Parody in the Turkish Mother Tongue Classroom
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Karrebaek, Martha Sif; Nergiz, Özgün – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Although not often discussed, complementary ('mother tongue') classrooms comprise participants who differ substantially in a number of ways. Differences comprise, e.g. participants' orientations to and understandings of the indexicalities of linguistic registers, which may have been brought along from the presupposed country of origin. It has…
Descriptors: Socialization, Classroom Communication, Native Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Stancetaking and Language Ideologies in Heritage Language Learner Classroom Discourse
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Showstack, Rachel E. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
Drawing on linguistic anthropological notions of language ideologies and sociolinguistic approaches to stance, this study examines the meaning-making resources through which Spanish heritage language (HL) learners orient toward ideological perspectives on language value and linguistic expertise in classroom interaction. Part of a larger…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Heritage Education
Institutional Representations of "Spanish" and "Spanglish": Managing Competing Discourses in Heritage Language Instruction
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Showstack, Rachel E. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
This case study examined how one instructor navigated between two competing discourses in an intermediate Spanish heritage language (HL) classroom: on the one hand, teaching "Standard Spanish" to help students achieve professional success, and legitimizing home linguistic practices on the other. In addition to expressing both…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Translanguaging Knowledge and Identity in Complementary Classrooms for Multilingual Minority Ethnic Children
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Wei, Li – Classroom Discourse, 2014
This article examines multilingual interactions in the complementary school classroom for ethnic Chinese children in the UK. Through a detailed analysis of classroom exchanges amongst the children and their teachers, the study aims to demonstrate how they alternate between different varieties of Chinese and English and different modes of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Self Concept, Asians, Classroom Communication
Identity and Language Ideology in the Intermediate Spanish Heritage Language Classroom
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Lowther Pereira, Kelly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the negotiation of language ideologies and identity construction amongst university intermediate level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners in the U.S. Southwest. Combining sociolinguistic and ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, this study seeks to provide deeper insight into the linguistic practices and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ideology, Participant Observation, Focus Groups