Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students

Piccardi, Duccio; Nodari, Rosalba; Calamai, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103201

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“…Calvet (1996) went a step further and extended the notion of linguistic insecurity to language contact situations – moving from an intralinguistic perspective to an interlinguistic one. Since then, a number of scholars have examined language insecurity in different multilingual contexts (e.g., Boudard 2013 in Mauritius; Bretegnier 1999 in La Réunion; Escandell 2011 in Spain; Piccardi et al. 2021 in Italy; among many others).…”

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Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity

Bouchard

2024

Multilingua

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Teachers play an essential role in fostering linguistic security in their classrooms. The aim of this study is to identify the language ideologies articulated by teachers in the Francophone schools of the English-dominant context of British Columbia (Canada) in order to explore how the different practices they implement to foster the use of French in their multilingual classrooms and foster linguistic security may interact and expose contradictions. The findings are based on a thematic analysis of interviews with twenty-one French-speaking high school teachers. I argue that linguistic ideologies provide a useful locus for studying the tensions produced by institutional policies and practices and the possible impact on the students’ feelings of linguistic insecurity. Building on excerpts from the interviews, the findings indicate that the practices the teachers use to implement the French-language policy in their classrooms must be examined further as they might be harming the efforts they are making to increase linguistic security. This paper is intended to contribute to the ongoing conversation about the practical process of engaging with linguistic insecurity.

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Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity

Bouchard

2024

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“…Sarà di futuro interesse provare l'efficacia delle due variabili sullo stesso campione di dati in parallelo, per valutare se il criterio per generazione è capace di spiegare tendenze diverse rispetto alla regionalità o se ne costituisce soltanto una versione meno granulare (per un approccio simile cf. Piccardi, Nodari, Calamai 2022).…”

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“…In ambito educativo, ci si è dedicati al rapporto che intercorre tra l'accento degli studenti e il loro successo scolastico, ed è stato dimostrato che i docenti tendono ad avere un atteggiamento negativo verso gli accenti non standard, siano essi locali o sovranazionali, causando così sbilanciamenti nelle valutazioni degli studenti che parlano con un accento rispetto ai compagni che hanno una pronuncia più standard (Frender, Brown, Lambert 1970;Seligman, Tucker, Lambert 1972;Williams 1976;Cross, DeVaney, Jones 2001;Delpit 2002). D'altro canto, gli studenti paiono essere consapevoli delle eventuali discriminazioni derivanti dalle loro competenze linguistiche, e sono spesso in grado di riconoscere il loro parlare con un accento (Piccardi, Nodari, Calamai 2022). Al contrario, sono meno numerosi gli studi dedicati all'apprezzamento degli accenti non standard da parte degli stessi studenti, e all'eventuale relazione tra le loro caratteristiche personali (come il provenire da una famiglia con un'esperienza migratoria) e il modo in cui l'accento viene elaborato e giudicato.…”

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International students as language managers

Zhang,

Hamid

2024

ARAL

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Many studies have reported language problems faced by international students in cross-cultural study-abroad settings. The present study investigated Chinese international students’ linguistic insecurity during their study-abroad in Australia, and the strategies that they deployed to manage this. Based on interviews with ten students from two different international programs, we found that the students felt anxious and insecure about their language ability in the English-only environment, which provided limited support for their academic and social survival. Moreover, their other linguistic resources remained unrecognized in the prevailing discourse of standardized English with its concomitant linguistic and social prejudices. Realizing that linguistic insecurity was affecting their study, life, and wellbeing, they implemented a series of measures and strategies to manage their language problems and achieve a sense of linguistic security. The findings can assist international students in developing an understanding of their language life in study-abroad settings, and education institutions in providing appropriate support to international students to enhance their linguistic security in the host society.

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Linguistic insecurity and discrimination among Italian school students

Cited by 8 publications

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Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity

Language ideologies and the use of French in an English-dominant context of Canada: new insights into linguistic insecurity

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