Bilingual beyond school: Students’ language ideologies in bilingual programs in south-central Spain
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la EducaciónPublisher
FahrenHouse: Salamanca, EspañaDate
2019-07-01Citation
10.14516/fde.700
Foro de Educación 17.27 (2019): 11-36
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1698-7802DOI
10.14516/fde.700Funded by
The research Project «The Appropriation of English as a Global Language in Castilla-La Mancha Schools: A multilingual, situated and comparative approach» – APINGLO-CLM – (Ref.: FFI2014-54179-C2-2-P), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), 2015-2018Project
Gobierno de España. FFI2014-54179-C2-2-PEditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.14516/fde.700Subjects
Adolescent Students; Bilingual Education; Language Ideologies; Linguistic Ethnography; EducaciónAbstract
This article examines adolescent and late adolescent discourses on bilingualism, bilingual education and the role of English and other additional languages in the current out-of-school lives and future trajectories of Spanish students enrolled in bilingual education programs. The data is part of a larger critical sociolinguistic ethnographic project on the implementation of bilingual education programs in secondary education (organized as English-Spanish CLIL) in Castilla-La Mancha, a region in South-Central Spain. Discourses were mainly elicited through a series of workshop-type and group discussion activities held in classrooms from two semi-private and two public schools, as well as an additional focus group conducted with university students. In total, 12 group events, involving approximately 300 students, were organized and documented through video-recordings, audio-recordings, photographs and fieldnotes. Students’ language ideologies around bilingualism are examined through an inductive qualitative / grounded theory approach. Three themes are identified: (a) the definition of bilingualism and bilingual competence, (b) the place of English (and other additional languages) in students’ current lives and social experiences and; (c) the role assigned to English in future employment and mobility opportunities. These discourses are discussed in relation to recent critical sociolinguistic work on the interconnection between language, multilingualism and neoliberalism. The paper closes with some methodological thoughts regarding the place of linguistic ethnography in the analysis of students’ collective discourses
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