Gender, Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Language Choices of Malaysian Youths: the Case of the Family Domain

Granhemat, Mehdi; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah

doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.26

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“…Home and family domains play a significant role in daily social interactions (Dweik & Qawar, 2015). The results aligned with Granhemat and Abdullah (2017), who found that most Malaysian multilingual youths in Malaysia used Malay in the family domain. Similarly, in this study, Pashto is the dominant language used by participants in the neighbourhood and friendship domain compared to Urdu and English.…”

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confidence: 84%

Willingness to communicate in relation to language use among Pakistani undergraduates: A sociocultural perspective

Ubaid

Ramanair

Rethinasamy

2022

SiELE

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This study aimed to investigate English as a second language (ESL) undergraduates’ sociocultural perspective of willingness to communicate (WTC) in English inside the classroom in relation to language use outside the classroom. The participants were 440 ESL undergraduates selected through the cluster sampling method from eight universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan. The data were collected through questionnaires on WTC in English inside the classroom and language use outside the classroom. The findings revealed that the participants’ level of WTC in English was high for most social interactions within the classroom, such as in groups, during activities, with the same gender, and when given preparation time in groups. The findings for language use showed that a mixture of languages, such as Pashto and Urdu, was predominantly used in the family, neighbourhood and friendship, religion, education, and transaction domains. In contrast, English was primarily used in the mass media and social media domains. Moreover, the findings revealed that WTC in English inside the classroom was positively correlated with social media, mass media, transaction and education domains but negatively correlated with the family domain.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Willingness to communicate in relation to language use among Pakistani undergraduates: A sociocultural perspective

Ubaid

Ramanair

Rethinasamy

2022

SiELE

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“…Ting and Kho (2021) report that Chinese university students have a marginally positive commitment to their Chinese identity, but that the Malay, Indigenous, and Indian students are more committed to their ethnic identities, albeit still at moderate levels [40]. In another study, the Chinese, Malay, and Indigenous students had moderately strong ethnic identities, while the Indian university students had a strong ethnic identity [41]. Thus, on the basis of the comparisons with the past findings that are related to ethnic affiliation and ethnic identity, it can be surmised that, while Chinese university students exhibit ethno-grouping in their behavior, their ethnic identity is marginally positive.…”

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Parents’ Role in the Ethnic Socialization of Youth in Malaysia

Ting

2022

Youth

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The study examines the influence of the ethnic background on the parents’ role in the ethnic socialization of youths in Malaysia. A survey of 894 youths, who were aged 18–40 years, and who were from Malay, Chinese, Indigenous, and Indian ethnic backgrounds, was conducted. The questionnaire results show moderate levels of ethnic affiliation and parental socialization. The influence of other people in the ethnic socialization, namely, relatives other than the parents, as well as friends and other adults (teachers, neighbors, and people of the same religion), was limited. The parents of the youths were engaged in more positive ethnic socialization than negative ethnic socialization. The participants’ parents talked to them about cultural pluralism and cultural pride from once to several times a year, but the Indian participants reported frequencies of more than once per month. Conversations that prepared the participants for bias and that promoted mistrust occurred one to two times a year, but they occurred up to several times a year for the Indian participants. The parents of the Indigenous, Malay, and Chinese participants engaged in less frequent ethnic socialization. As a majority group, the Malay parents may have felt secure in their privileged status; however, the groups with immigrant backgrounds responded to their marginalized status in divergent ways with respect to the activeness of the parental ethnic socialization.

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“…Simultaneously, online users' culture is totally separated from the CMC environment where a physical world is surrounded and an offline culture is grounded, and determined by an entirely boundaries such as: ethnicity, nationality, religion and so on. Further, [3] mentioned: "a social setting that acommunication takes place there may be significant in language choice of multilingual individuals [4,5]". [6] explored the macro-level distribution of language when he presented it as an interplaying of several components which are: goal, setting, topic and means (mode) of interaction (through writing, face-to-face discourse, broadcasting, structured discourse...etc.).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[12] underlined the above through giving some vivid symbols of this phenomenon as in Canada where English and French are both considered as official languages. Accordingly, within multilingual communities, language choice can be used as a tool to predict a certain phenomenon within any of social life contexts [3,13].…”

Section: B Bilingualism and Multilingualismmentioning

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Code-switching on Social Media Amongst Algerians in the UK

2018

J. ICT des. eng. technol. sci.

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This paper overviews research regarding the use of code-switching within social media outlets. It aims at diagnosing some corpus of online speech for a group of Algerian users residing in the UK. A triangulation method was followed to categorize types and patterns of code-switching and assess the users' awareness towards generating these linguistic behaviors. A sample of online users was recruited to submit an online questionnaire to identify their identity profiles. Online activities were monitored for the data collection period. To ensure the accessibility to the users' activities, the researcher was friend and follower with the users on Facebook and Twitter, respectively. A small sample was interviewed for in-depth exploring the functions of the linguistic behaviors that have been detected. Gender was demonstrated to be an aspect of identity to investigate the potential link between language use and identity. This paper produces a newly established set of a datum to accentuate the pre-assumed perceptions of the multilingual background of Algerians within the Computer Monitored Communication (CMC).

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Gender, Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity, and Language Choices of Malaysian Youths: the Case of the Family Domain

Cited by 10 publications

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Willingness to communicate in relation to language use among Pakistani undergraduates: A sociocultural perspective

Willingness to communicate in relation to language use among Pakistani undergraduates: A sociocultural perspective

Parents’ Role in the Ethnic Socialization of Youth in Malaysia

Code-switching on Social Media Amongst Algerians in the UK

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