The Experiences of and Responses to Linguicism of Quebec English‐Speaking and Franco‐Ontarian Postsecondary Students

Jean-Pierre, Johanne

doi:10.1111/cars.12220

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“…This description accurately matches the situation of Francophones in Canada, particularly in the province of Ontario. While Francophones have been living in the region for centuries (see Allaire, 2007), a history of social, political, and economical tensions has strained the language groups (Darroch and Ornstein, 1980;Jean-Pierre, 2018). Canada implemented the Official Languages Act in 1969 (see Martel, 2019), a statute declaring that both English and French were equal official languages of the country.…”

Section: The Canadian Dual-language Interactional Contextmentioning

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Language athletes: Dual-language code-switchers exhibit inhibitory control advantages

Gosselin

Sabourin

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Recent studies have begun to examine bilingual cognition from more nuanced, experienced-based perspectives. The present study adds to this body of work by investigating the potential impact of code-switching on bilinguals’ inhibitory control abilities. Crucially, our bilingual participants originated from a predominantly dual-language environment, the interactional context which is believed to require (and therefore, potentially train) cognitive control processes related to goal-monitoring and inhibition. As such, 266 French Canadian bilinguals completed an online experiment wherein they were asked to complete a domain-general (Flanker) and a language-specific (bilingual Stroop) inhibitory control task, as well as extensive demographic and language background questionnaires. Stepwise multiple regressions (including various potential demographic and linguistic predictors) were conducted on the participants’ Flanker and Stroop effects. The results indicated that the bilinguals’ propensity to code-switch consistently yielded significant positive (but unidirectional) inhibitory control effects: dual-language bilinguals who reported more habitual French-to-English switching exhibited better goal-monitoring and inhibition abilities. For the language-specific task, the analysis also revealed that frequent unintentional code-switching may mitigate these inhibition skills. As such, the findings demonstrate that dual-language code-switchers may experience inhibitory control benefits, but only when their switching is self-reportedly deliberate. We conclude that the bilinguals’ interactional context is thus of primary importance, as the dual-language context is more conducive to intentional code-switching. Overall, the current study highlights the importance of considering individualistic language experience when it comes to examining potential bilingual executive functioning advantages.

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Section: The Canadian Dual-language Interactional Contextmentioning

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Language athletes: Dual-language code-switchers exhibit inhibitory control advantages

Gosselin

Sabourin

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Language-based discrimination (also called linguicism, linguistic discrimination, glottophobia, and languagism) is an unfair treatment based on the use of language and other characteristics of speech, such as having a different mother language (Jean-Pierre 2018 ). Based on differences in the use of language, people tend to automatically form judgments about a linguistic minority.…”

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Integrating international linguistic minorities in emergency planning at institutions of higher education

Abukhalaf

Meding

2021

Nat Hazards

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Research concerning the behavior of international linguistic minorities at institutions of higher education during disasters is very limited. Many international groups suffer from discrimination based on language (linguicism) during disasters—their stories are not being told, and their voices are not being heard. The main objective of our study is to develop new knowledge about disaster-related behaviors of international linguistic minorities at institutions of higher education with a view toward enhancing overall campus emergency planning. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to collect and analyze data; 62 subjects from the international community at University of Florida (UF), including foreign employees, international students, and foreign dependents, were surveyed shortly after the hurricane Dorian alert on campus. Additionally, 10 subjects from the UF international community were interviewed. The data analysis sought to provide insights into one main question: What were the key challenges facing international linguistic minorities at UF campus during the hurricane Dorian alert? Three comprehensive groups of challenges were found; disaster knowledge deficit and false perceptions, generic emergency communication, and inadequate disaster preparedness. The research findings provide insight into the experience of culturally different groups and offer practical and critical policy insights that help in developing more efficient disaster mitigation plans, and disaster risk-reduction strategies.

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Educational linguicism: linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools

Nguyen

2021

Lang Policy

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The Experiences of and Responses to Linguicism of Quebec English‐Speaking and Franco‐Ontarian Postsecondary Students

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Language athletes: Dual-language code-switchers exhibit inhibitory control advantages

Language athletes: Dual-language code-switchers exhibit inhibitory control advantages

Integrating international linguistic minorities in emergency planning at institutions of higher education

Educational linguicism: linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools

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