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Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Ideologies: Social Media Representations of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
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Ruth Kircher; Ethan Kutlu – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study to investigate this, with a focus on Twitter representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the USA. We analysed two corpora (one English and one Spanish--over 30…
Descriptors: Social Media, Native Language, Spanish, English
Ways of Living in the Context of Globalization: How South Korean Minority Adolescents Construct Their Identities
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Shin, Jaran – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
This study examines how two Korean adolescents, born in transnational marriage families, construct their identities in the context of globalization. The data used comes from a yearlong ethnographic research project that includes fieldnotes, interview transcripts, and additional artifacts. The findings reveal that Tayo and Sungho navigate through…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Minority Groups, Self Concept, Biculturalism
Silencing Linguistic Diversity: The Extent, the Determinants and Consequences of the Monolingual Beliefs of Flemish Teachers
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Pulinx, Reinhilde; Van Avermaet, Piet; Agirdag, Orhan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This article aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic interaction between language policies, school characteristics and teachers' beliefs about monolingualism. The study takes place in Flanders (Belgium), a region characterized by educational policies which are based on a stringent monolingual ideology. Based on a survey of 775 teachers…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries