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Renata Love Jones; C. Patrick Proctor – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this article Renata Love Jones and Patrick Proctor introduce the notion of pursuing language to engage in critical dialogue about the nature and focus of language and literacy education in multilingual and multicultural contexts. A persistent threat in language and literacy education is standardization that constrains how language and literacy…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Cookie R. Garrett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For too long, the debate about Ebonics has been about the validity of the language and not about how the perception of the language impacts those that speak it. Ebonics has been considered inappropriate and inadequate as a language in institutions of higher education since the moment Black people in the United States were allowed access. However,…
Descriptors: College Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Blacks
McKinney, Emry; Hoggan, Chad – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
For educators committed to promoting social equity, the question of how to address dialect hegemony is increasingly important. While linguists have long accepted the concept of dialect equality, educators have struggled with the issue, sparking a history of controversy and debate underscoring larger social issues of diversity and equity. For…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Nonstandard Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Teaching Methods
Ali Alsaawi – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
It has been claimed that the application of ordinary language philosophy has almost entirely declined since the 1970s following the development of systematic semantic theory. This is due to the allegation that it had less interest among philosophers and moved to be a historical movement. This paper presents an overview of the application of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Philosophy, Linguistic Theory, History
Razfar, Aria; Rumenapp, Joseph C.; Torres, Zayoni – Urban Education, 2023
Urban schools are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse. However, principals are not adequately prepared to address linguistic variation, and in particular, issues related to African American Language (AAL). This study explores the language ideological voices of urban school administrators. Focus group sessions were conducted with 15…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Schools, Language Usage, Ideology
Clejetter Pickett Cousins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Scholars have examined and debated the use of African American Language (AAL) in the past but research that has focused on its use in college settings has been scarce. This study uses a case study approach to examine attitudes and perspectives of a university community toward AAL use inside and outside the classroom and beyond. The case study…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Black Dialects, African Americans, Language Usage
Yating Huang; Fan Fang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The complexity of language contact and intercultural communication has generated various issues in relation to language use and education. As one of the many Chinese dialects ("fangyans"), the Chaoshan dialect ("Teochew") has been affected by the extensive promotion of Putonghua, the key lingua franca across China, and English,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Dialects, Language Usage
Myla P. Grier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this research was to investigate the representation of black students in contemporary American English. Two questions were addressed, what is the semantic prosody of Black students, and what are the semantic roles for Black students. All the concordance lines containing the phrase Black students were downloaded from the Corpus of…
Descriptors: African American Students, North American English, Semantics, Black Dialects
Faith Thompson; Lauren Hatch Pokhrel – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2025
This literature review synthesizes scholarship on standard language ideologies in college writing programs and the theories and pedagogies being proposed to disrupt such ideologies. Findings include a tension between belief and action, or that professors' awareness of language diversity does not translate into changes in pedagogy. This is due to…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Writing Instruction, Literacy Education
Ling Wang; Kendall King – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Governmental language policies in China have varied across recent decades, including the intensive promotion of Mandarin as a language of unification and public championing of regional varieties. Concomitantly, increasing urbanisation, regional migration, and cross-linguistic marriage have led to greater use of Mandarin in private domains. Given…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Parent Attitudes
Chand, Bimal Avinesh; Chand, Satish Prakash – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The use of Fiji Hindi and Standard Hindi is often debated in schools and communities in Fiji. Over the years, several studies have been conducted to focus on different facets of language use. While much has been studied about the formal and informal elements of the Hindi language, the views of the community on its use in social and educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Dialects, Elementary School Curriculum
Yousra Abourehab – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article examines teacher ideologies and multilingual practices in teaching Arabic as a heritage language in the USA. Using indexicality and its nexus to language ideologies, it identifies the key index values assigned to Standard Arabic (SA) and how these shape teacher positioning for teaching Arabic heritage. The article also analyzes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Heritage Education, Arabic
Jungah Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study examines second dialect acquisition of North Korean refugees living in Seoul. A total of 14478 stops were measured from each of 22 Pyongyang North Korean standard (NK) and Seoul South Korean (SK) speakers. First, stops of NK and SK have been directly compared to each other by measuring VOT, F0, and H1-H2. In addition to providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Korean, Dialects
Brea-Spahn, María Rosa; Bauler, Clara Vaz – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Ideologies are like rocks onto which individuals and institutions anchor their thoughts about what it means to be an "ideal language user" and what "standardized languaging" is. These deeply ingrained beliefs, influenced by colonial legacies and sociopolitical contexts, invisibly enforce a hierarchical order between…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Language Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Standard Spoken Usage
Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper reports on how a prominent American football player, Joe Burrow, from the state of Ohio adopts the Cajun English spelling system used in Louisiana, a southern state in the U.S., in a symbolic and innovative way during his short stay there when he relocated to Louisiana from Ohio for the final two years of his college career. In previous…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Language Variation, Spelling