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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Linguistic capital"”.
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Testing Linguistic Capital: The Reproduction of Culture Through the Standardized Testing of Literacy
… This thesis shows how access to the cultural and linguistic capital of the dominant class has been restricted from minorities. The restriction of this capital to non-minorities has lessened the chances for minorities to obtain jobs. Based on the theories of Bourdieu, this thesis shows how the …
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The Impact of Global English in Xinjiang, China: Linguistic Capital and Identity Negotiation among the Ethnic Minority and Han Chinese Students
… Xinjiang at the historical juncture of China’s capitalist development. In Xinjiang the international lingua franca English, the national official language Mandarin Chinese, and major Turkic languages such as Uyghur and Kazakh interact and compete for linguistic prestige in different social …
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
… Taiwan’s complex socio-political, cultural and linguistic context. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to explore how participants perceive linguistic value and culture, and how this perception has an influence on self-identity throughout the process of learning languages, while also …
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Social and Cultural Capital Across Contexts: Mandarin-Speaking English Language Learning Children's First and Second Language Literacy Learning at Home, in the Community, and in Multiple Classrooms
… to be more effective in increasing ELLs' L2 linguistic capital due to her explicit instruction on literacy components, use of accommodated speech, and giving constructive feedback on the ELL children's writing. In contrast, the 4th grade and 5th grade mainstream teachers' literacy practices …
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"Their power will be your pain": an investigation into the discourses of medicinal cannabis users
… draws on the key concepts of field, habitus, linguistic habitus, cultural and linguistic capital and trajectory (1979; 1992). The main findings are that whilst participants discuss a range of issues and use a range of rhetorical strategies and discursive resources in doing so, the majority of …
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Yoghurts for fruit-time : a narrative study of language learning in the kindergarten
… it creates for all children to add to their linguistic capital in an informal setting prior to formal schooling. This study is based on a collaborative, participatory model built on a mutually beneficial relationship between researcher and participants. It uses a narrative methodology to …
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION (ELE) AS A MARK OF SOCIAL DISTINCTION IN TAIWAN: BUXIBANS, ELE TEACHERS DISCOURSE, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
… by perpetuating the value of dominant cultural capital and by blaming working-class parents' neglect of ELE. The study concludes that participants' conforming to English skills (four domains, i.e., reading, writing, speaking, and listening) is a form of cultural and linguistic capital that has …
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Language ideologies and the positioning of learners in a multilingual Grade 1 classroom: a case study
… on the theoretical understanding of Bourdieu's linguistic capital, as well as language ideology and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). I argue that there is a link between the micro and macro-level discourses that circulate a specific type of language ideology that affects the positioning of …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… The study shows that isiXhosa can become linguistic capital (Bourdieu, 1991) for white South Africans, depending on context and the isiXhosa register they use. It demonstrates that Apartheid discourse ascribes to the men an identity which is indisputably white, but that early experiences …
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The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada
… alone with the task of protecting their valuable linguistic and cultural heritages. Inevitably, without national information sharing or support from the Canadian government, HL policy and programming are in a precarious state. My study involves my participation in a community-based research …
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Standard Language Ideology and World Englishes: A Multiple Narrative Case Study of Immigrant Educators’ Experiences in Canada
… varieties. Further, Bourdieu’s notions of linguistic capital - wherein language is understood as capital mediated by social and power relations - facilitate this inquiry into language as a site-of-struggle, its effects, as well as resilience and agency. This study culls from data collected …
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Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon
… categories in this study: foundational forms of capital and driving forms of capital. Foundational forms of capital included aspirational, familial, and linguistic capital, which grounded students’ educational pursuits in their family, community, and linguistic histories. Navigational, social, …
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L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa
… school; ideal neurophysiology and prior human capital; and intrinsic motivation. For those who lacked such ideal personal conditions, guardian investment by parents was sufficient to catalyse investment behaviour, or the introduction of circumstantial necessity through moving to an …
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Mainstreaming second language learners: teachers' instructional strategies in the classroom
… develop perceptions about their cultural and linguistic capital. I am particularly interested in how instruction influences African children in the classroom. The U.S. immigration policies allowing citizens of foreign countries to migrate into the country, has favored the immigration of many …
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The French in London on-land and on-line: an ethnosemiotic analysis
… forms and functionalities of symbolic/cultural capital (Bourdieu, (1979a, 1980b), together with linguistic capital/habitus (Bourdieu, 1982 [2001]), examining the differing symbolic value of embodied and articulated language in France and London. Finally, recognising that migration today involves …
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Language attitudes and ideologies in Malta : a mixed-methods study
… English to economic, social, cultural and/or linguistic capital (Bourdieu, 1991). At times, use of language can lead to exclusion because the participants’ language use does not match what is expected of them in a particular habitus (Bourdieu, 1977). Ideologies related to social class, to …
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Challenges Posed by the Use of English as the Language of Learning and Teaching in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) high schools.
… as its framework.The core of the study was linguistic and communicative competence. It emphasised that for township high school learners to perform well academically they need to master the language of learning and teaching in the following crucial areas: vocabulary and grammatical rules …
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Fighting the tightrope: language ideologies, balancing acts, and figures of elusive modernity in South Korea
There has been a growing interest in how local linguistic practices are being shaped by the global force of neoliberalism. Though it is a powerful paradigm, I hope to illuminate through this dissertation how neoliberalism alone is insufficient to be held accountable for the changing meanings of …
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"Dream. Drive. Do.: becoming that ""someone like me"""
… model. Applying the theoretical lens of cultural capital, broader implications are made about identity development, race, disability and discrimination. A fusion between social science and screenplay yields a compelling story where the effects of reality, vivid details, and human experience come …