Language ideology and pedagogy: Cry for help

[Mark A Peterson]

Bad writing because I am writing outside my own experiences.  Basically, the
kind of sociolinguistics she works on will require her to evaluate
individual students, on the basis of some kind of assessment/measurement
practice (i.e. survey), as to their personal attitudes and perceptions about
Arabic, which she will then attempt to link to some assessment/measurement
of their learning process.  This is about as far as one can get from my own
brand of sociolinguistics -- in which I try to analyze underlying
assumptions from elicited and naturally occurring discourse.  So I am asking
if there are foreign language teachers on the lists I posted this to who
might know of published assessment schedules that she could use of modify
for her use.

Best

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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-----Original Message-----
From: Celso Alvarez Caccamo <lxalvarz at udc.es>
To: Mark A Peterson <peterson at aucegypt.edu>
Cc: Discourse Listserve <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>; Linguistic
Anthropology List <linganth at cc.rochester.edu>
Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: Language ideology and pedagogy: Cry for help


Hi,

I am interested in language ideologies. I don't think I can
help you with your (Mark's) student's project, though, but I
am curious about what you mean by this:

[Mark Peterson:]
> Any suggestions or recommendations as to how to measure language
> ideology in an appropriate way toward this end or other advice
> appreciated

I mean, what do you have in mind with "measuring language
ideology"?

Best,
-celso
--
Celso Alvarez Cáccamo              Tel. +34 981 167000 ext. 1888
Linguística Geral, Faculdade de Filologia     FAX +34 981 167151
Universidade da Corunha                          lxalvarz at udc.es
15071 A Corunha, Galiza (Espanha)  http://www.udc.es/dep/lx/cac/