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Agentive responses: a study of students’ language attitudes towards the use of English in India
Current Issues in Language Planning ( IF 2.030 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 , DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2020.1744319
R. Vennela 1 , K. M. C. Kandharaja 2
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ABSTRACT

This study investigates language attitudes expressed by public university students in India at various layers of agentive positionality as an integral part of their dynamic language ecologies. This is achieved through the qualitative analysis of three focus group interviews conducted at three public universities in India with the object of eliciting the students’ language attitudes towards English and its use in India. This research perceives students as agents and explores their attitudes in the context of a language ecology Such an enquiry into language attitudes forms a part of a broader exploration into the nature of agency, agentive responses and their situatedness in an LPP context. It adds to existing scholarship on LPP by reinterpreting the meaning(s) of agency with a critical focus on ‘ground-up’ descriptions of language experiences. In this study, the researchers argue that invisible language planners’ as Pakir describes,and interested stakeholders such as university students, provide a critical basis for the study of LPP in context. The authors argue that agency is multi-layered, and that agentive positionality is relative to agentive foci. Such reconfigurations of agency mark a shift from the view that language policies are the starting point for understanding an LPP ecology.



中文翻译:

积极回应:研究学生在印度使用英语的语言态度

摘要

这项研究调查了印度公立大学学生在代理定位的各个层面上表达的语言态度作为他们动态语言生态不可或缺的一部分。这是通过对印度三所公立大学进行的三个焦点小组访谈的定性分析而实现的,目的是激发学生对英语及其在印度的使用的语言态度。这项研究将学生视为代理人,并在语言生态学的背景下探究他们的态度。对语言态度的探究是对代理性质,代理响应及其在LPP情况下所处位置的更广泛探索的一部分。它通过重新解释代理的含义(重点是对语言体验的“基础”描述)来增加对LPP的现有奖学金。在这项研究中,研究人员认为,隐形语言计划者正如Pakir所描述的那样,感兴趣的利益相关者(例如大学生)为在上下文中研究LPP提供了重要的基础。作者认为代理是多层的,代理的位置性是相对于代理的焦点而言的。代理的这种重新配置标志着一种观点的转变,即语言政策是理解LPP生态学的起点。

更新日期:2020-03-25
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