[lg policy] A Conversation Analytic study of Language Policy as practices: examples from an EFL classroom of a Swedish school

Fri Apr 4 16:14:02 UTC 2014

Dear Alia,

I have just checked the archives of our lgpolicy-list and your message has
gone through, after I forwarded it.  So that takes care of that at least
temporarily, but we still need to know why linguist-list is blocking things.

HS

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Alia Amir <alia.amir at liu.se> wrote:

>  I am a researcher based at Linköping University in Sweden. I use
> Conversation Analysis to study language policy as it is lived out in
> practice. For my PhD dissertation, I focused on classroom interaction to
> see how language policy in practice is lived out in an EFL classroom, how
> the language policy is *done* by the participants and what are the
> various ways of doing language policing (Amir, 2013) in action?
>
>
>
> I will be talking about the findings of my PhD study carried out in a
> Swedish school and will be advocating the use of CA to work look at
> practiced language policy (Bonacina, 2010) at Lund University (Sweden) in
> cooperation with the Language Policy Network Denmark. Kindly see the
> following links for further details:
>
>
>
> http://cip.ku.dk/english/research/network/lpn/
>
> http://www.sol.lu.se/sol/kalendarium/
>
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> Title: A Conversation Analytic study of Language Policy as practices:
> examples from an EFL classroom of a Swedish school
>
> Abstract
>
> Within the LP studies, recently the trend has been shifting towards more
> ethnographic and practice-based approaches with a growing number of studies
> dealing with language policy in a wider range of settings. An emerging
> research paradigm of LP (Ricento, 2000, 2006; Shohamy, 2006; Spolsky, 2004;
> Spolsky & Shohamy, 2000) has emerged and many interactional studies have
> approached language policy and language norms at the micro-level.
>
> Ricento & Hornberger (1996) used the metaphor of an onion to describe
> language policy, which not only has various layers but different shapes and
> sizes, for instance different levels of education like pre-school, primary,
> secondary and tertiary education, etc. Each layer needs a different
> methodology and approach to uncover language policy, both at micro level as
> well as macro-level.
>
> This study will focus on an emerging strand of research within language
> policy studies i.e. language policy as practices or lived-out language
> policy in actual interactions. Researchers within this strand of research
> have used Conversation Analysis to study practices in actual interactions
> instead of policy as discourse or texts. For my doctoral dissertation, I
> looked at practiced language policy of classroom participants from an EFL
> Swedish context. Even though language policy as discourses and text are an
> important way to explore different levels of language policy, but my stance
> is that practiced language policy (Bonacina, 2012) is an important layer of
> language policy and this must be looked at, in order to see what the
> members themselves orient to instead of looking at what someone else wants
> them to do (Spolsky, 2007). The focus of the study is to look at different
> ways of doing language policy which means looking at different
> sub-categories of doing language policy. The most explicit way of doing
> language policy is language policing which refers to the mechanism deployed
> by the teacher and/or the pupils to (re-)establish the normatively
> prescribed medium of classroom interaction (Amir & Musk, 2013; cf. Bonacina
> & Gafaranga, 2011).
>
> The data comes from sequential analyses of 20 hours of video recordings in
> grades 8 & 9 of an international compulsory school in Sweden between the
> years 2007-2010. Drawing on Auer (1984) and Gafaranga's (1999)
> organisational code-switching framework, this study sheds light on how
> teachers and pupils switch to English in their interactions. As will be
> demonstrated, both teachers and pupils, while orienting to the English-only
> norm, use a three-step sequence for language policing.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Alia Amir (alia.amir at liu.se)
>
>
>
>    [image: Linköpings universitet]
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> [image: sigill_96dpi_50px]
>
> Alia Amir, PhD.
>
> Department of Culture and Communication
> Linköping University
> 581 83 Linköping
> Sweden
> Phone: +46 13 286965
> Mobile: +46 76 2316873
>
> Visiting address: 4129, Key building , Campus Valla
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> [if you wish: www.liu.se/enhet]
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