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ERIC Number: EJ1445945
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1479-0718
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7530
Are Bilingual Teachers More Liberal than Monolingual Teachers? Differences between the Language Attitudes of Hungarian Teachers in Multilingual and Monolingual Environment
István Jánk
International Journal of Multilingualism, v21 n4 p1983-2005 2024
Teachers' language attitudes play a key role in their decision-making, evaluation, and behaviour in the classroom. This is as true in a monolingual environment as it is in a bilingual or multilingual linguistic situation, but it is fair to assume that the two different linguistic environments are associated with the dominance of different attitudes and ideologies. Among the related research, it is hard to find any that examine the difference between monolinguals and multilinguals from the perspective of language bias, especially in the field of education. The present study explores the language ideologies and attitudes of Hungarian language teachers. The study was based on the language attitudes of 502 Hungarian language teachers, of whom 57% teach in a bilingual setting and 43% in a monolingual environment. The research instrument was a tool similar to a verbal guise test. It was used to assess standard and non-standard language variants, the students who use them and their oral presentations to the teachers included in the survey. The primary hypothesis, that bilingual or multilingual teachers are more linguistically tolerant than their monolingual colleagues, was not confirmed. In fact, in some cases, the data revealed the opposite.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hungary; Slovakia; Romania; Ukraine
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