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MacSwan, Jeff – Language Teaching Research, 2020
The author situates language education policy and scholarship on Academic English within the broader historical context of standard language ideology, the view that the language variety of socio-economic elites is intrinsically more complex than other varieties. It is argued that the current predominant focus on the nature of school language gives…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status, Standard Spoken Usage
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van Compernolle, Remi A. – Language Teaching Research, 2013
Drawing on longitudinal data, this study explores the dynamic relationship between the development of conceptual knowledge of language and the emergence of sociostylistic variation in second language (L2) speech. Participants include eight intermediate-level US university learners of French who participated in a concept-based pedagogical…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Variation, College Students, Language Styles