‘I speak slang, but wiv the teacher ‘normal’’. Language ideology in the primary classroom

• Authors: Giuliana Ferri
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is a work in progress investigating the perceptions of Standard English expressed by a group of children in their last year of primary school in a multicultural and multilingual educational setting in London. The theoretical framework employed to interpret the data, a series of group interviews with small groups, is that of language ideology. The idea brought forward in the paper is that language ideology is a habitus (Bourdieu, 1991) which attaches certain values to the prestige variety of a language, while devaluing non-standard varieties. Through the adoption of this theoretical lens, the paper attempts to evaluate the educational implications of this ideology.

Keywords

EN

language ideology; habitus; Standard English; multilingual; non-standard

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne
• Journal: Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2(37)
• Pages: 19-27

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Giuliana Ferri

• University of West London

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Identifiers

ISSN

1734-1582; e-ISSN 2451-2230

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0010.5586