Language ideology and pedagogy: Cry for help

[jjm71 at JUNO.COM]

Mark,

If this topic does exist, it would be found within the domain of
"Language attitudes research".  Gardner's work on language attitudes of
English dominant Canadian students of French is preeminent in this field.


Incidentally, I found these sources while conducting research at AUC for
an MA in TESL (94-96).  Have your student contact me if the following are
helpful.

-James

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James Mullooly, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
e-mail: JJM64 at Columbia.edu or JJM71 at Juno.com
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Language Attitudes Research in Cognitive and Applied Linguistics

Edwards, J. , R. (1982).  Language attitudes and their implications among
English speakers.  In E. B. Ryan & H. Giles (Eds.) , Attitudes Towards
Language Variation Social and Applied Contexts (pp. 20-33) . London :
Edward Arnold.

Gardner , R. , C. (1982).  Language attitudes and language 	learning.  In
E. B. Ryan & H. Giles (Eds.) , Attitudes Towards Language Variation
Social and Applied Contexts pp.132-147). London : Edward Arnold.

Gardner, R. C., Moorcroft, R., & Metford, J. (1989).  Second language
learning in an immersion program: Factors influencing acquisition and
retention.  Journal of 	Language and Social Psychology , 8 , 287-305.

Giles, H. , Henwood, K. , Coupland, N. , Harriman, J.  , & Coupland, J.
(1992).  Language attitudes and cognitive mediation.  Human
Communications Research , 18,  500-527.

Krosnick, J. , A. , Boninger, D. , S. , Chuang, Y. , C. , Berent, 	M. ,
K. & Carnot, C. , G.(1993).  Attitude strength: One construct or many
related constructs? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 65 ,
1132-1151.

Ryan, E.  B. , Giles , H. , & Sebastian , R. (1982).  An 	integrative
perspective for the study of attitudes towards language variation. In E.
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and Applied Contexts (pp. 1-19) . London : Edward Arnold.


On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:06:11 +0200 Mark A Peterson
<peterson at AUCEGYPT.EDU> writes:
> Here is a query for all you teachers of foreign language:
>
> My Arabic tutor is a graduate student in the American University in
> Cairo Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language program.
>
> She wants to do her MA thesis on the relationship of language
> ideology to pedagogical style. That is, she is assuming that
> people’s understandings about Arabic affect (or at least may
> predict) the speed and quality of their learning of Arabic.
>
> Her thesis advisor is apparently not sure that this is a legitimate
> project, nor that it will reveal anything worthwhile. Nonetheless,
> her own experiences teaching Arabic to foreigners in England, the US
> and Egypt, and to members of the Arab diaspora in England and the US
> for whom Arabic is a second language, have convinced her that
> language ideology frames practices of pedagogy.
>
> I may end up as outside reader on her thesis committee, even though
> this is a bit outside my expertise, if only to try to convince other
> members that the concept is plausible. At any rate, I am looking for
> two things:
>
>     1.. literature on this subject, that is, the relation of
> language ideology to pedagogy; and
>     2.. teachers of Arabic anywhere in the world who would be
> willing to administer a short survey of attitudes to their students
> as part of such a project.
> Any suggestions or recommendations as to how to measure language
> ideology in an appropriate way toward this end or other advice
> appreciated. My expertise (such as it is) is in semiotics and the
> ethnography of communication and although I’ve done a bit of work
> with language ideology (in India) I’m feeling a bit out of my depth
> here.
>
>
>
> Mark Allen Peterson
> Asst. Professor of Anthropology
> The American University in Cairo
> PO Box 2511, Cairo 11511 EGYPT
> peterson at aucegypt.edu
>
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> limitations. Its idiom is never used by violence and authority."
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