New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?

Murchadha, Noel Ó; Hornsby, Michael; Smith‐Christmas, Cassie; Moriarty, Máiréad

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“…This is perhaps especially salient in powerful global languages where economic benefits abound for native‐like language users (Bijvoet & Fraurud, ). Even in smaller languages, though, native speech varieties can be attractive to learners as they are seen to represent a unique way of being (Ó Murchadha et al., ). For language learning stakeholders, therefore, the pursuit of native‐like language production is not often called into question, no matter the language involved (Cook, ; Kramsch, ).…”

Section: On the Origins Of The Native Speaker Modelmentioning

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Murchadha

Flynn

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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Target varieties for language learning are contentious in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. Debates centre on the nature and utility of alternative norms. Approximation to ‘native speaker’ practices is the hallmark of language education. Thus, policy and pedagogy frequently orient toward achieving native‐like production. While many language learning stakeholders are committed to this model, it is also contested. Opponents point to the ideological assumptions about ‘native’ and ‘nonnative’ speech inherent in the model, and to the unrealistic aims it presents to teachers and learners. While much research focuses on learner preferences, little work exists on teacher attitudes. This article aims to address this dearth in the target variety debate. By focusing on Irish as a minority language, the article supplements the literature on classroom targets for English and other major languages. A thematic analysis of interviews with Irish language pedagogues is presented and reveals their engagement with target varieties for the language.

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“…THE ‘NATIVE SPEAKER’ HOLDS A privileged position in various branches of linguistics (Ó Murchadha et al., ). Sociolinguistics has ‘the vernacular’ and ‘the standard.’ Chomsky () has his ideal speaker–listener in a completely homogeneous speech community, who knows its language perfectly.…”

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Murchadha

Flynn

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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“…Como é evidente, esta grande viraxe veu acompañada por unha diversificación tanto das liñas e métodos de investigación canto dos suxeitos de estudo. Á luz da crecente atención conferida ao fenómeno global do neofalantismo recentemente, son moitos os contributos que visan revisitar e reavaliar aspectos tan fundamentais como a distinción entre "falante nativo" e "neofalante" (O'Rourke & Pujolar, 2013;Jaffe, 2015;Atkinson, 2018;Murchadha, Hornsby, Smith-Christmas & Moriarty, 2018) ou o papel chave das "minorías lingüísticas" (May, 2008;Moscovici & Mugny, 1983). Na verdade, a cuestión do "falante nativo" como sinónimo de "falante-ouvinte ideal", cando menos nunha perspectiva teórica, xa captou o interese de Chomsky (1971: 5) e mesmo de Fishman (1991), para quen a recuperación de calquera lingua está intimamente ligada á reconstrución da comunidade de falantes nativas e nativos.…”

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A emerxencia do neofalantismo como concepto sociolingüístico relevante: estado da arte na Galiza

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2019

Rev Gal Filo

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Aínda que o número de galegofalantes continúa a diminuír de modo especialmente preocupante, nos últimos tempos o panorama sociolingüístico está a mudar de maneira significativa, presenciando o aparecemento dunha minoría urbana e falante nativa de español que reaxe con determinación perante o desequilibrio lingüístico na Galiza. Estas persoas neofalantes desempeñan un papel fundamental na transformación das ideoloxías e das prácticas lingüísticas, o que as torna unha peza chave no futuro da lingua galega. En concreto, neste artigo afondaremos no fenómeno do neofalantismo do punto de vista teórico, con énfase na recente proliferación de traballos académicos sobre esta cuestión tanto a nivel internacional canto nacional, en conformidade coa importancia que este fenómeno social posúe para a revitalización e a sobrevivencia das linguas minorizadas, incluíndo o idioma galego.

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“…The restoration of language and society to pre‐shift conditions is among the hallmarks of language revitalisation (Bentahila and Davies ; Ó Murchadha et al. ; Romaine ). In terms of the valorisation of variation in minority languages, revivalists are often shown to overtly pine for imagined or attested pre‐shift linguistic practices (e.g.…”

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“…‘New speaker’ is used here to describe social actors who use and claim ownership of a language that is not typically perceived as belonging to them, or to ‘people like them’ (Ó Murchadha et al. : 4). It describes individuals with little or no home or community exposure to a language but who instead acquire it through immersion or bilingual education, revitalisation projects or as adult learners (O'Rourke, Pujolar and Ramallo : 1).…”

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Language educators’ regard for variation in late modernity: Perceptions of linguistic variation in minority contexts

Murchadha

Flynn

2018

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article investigates language educators’ regard for linguistic variation in a minority language context. It argues that teachers function as language norm authorities who may influence the linguistic practices and ideologies of students, and that this role takes on added significance in minority language contexts where access to the target language may be limited. Data are presented from a study on the linguistic ideologies of Irish language educators – ‘new speakers’ who acquired the language mainly thorough the education system. Participants’ ideologies on variation in modern spoken Irish were explored using semi‐structured interviews incorporating a speaker evaluation design. Although participants valorise traditional dialectal varieties of Irish, in line with established hierarchies, ideological frameworks are contested so that new ways of using Irish are beginning to gain overt acceptance. The results reveal the manner in which hierarchies of language variation in the Irish language are in flux in our contemporary late‐modern period.

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New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?

Cited by 18 publications

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

A emerxencia do neofalantismo como concepto sociolingüístico relevante: estado da arte na Galiza

Language educators’ regard for variation in late modernity: Perceptions of linguistic variation in minority contexts

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