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Multiple languages, multiple identities? Children's language characteristics and their ethnic and national identification
Language, Culture and Curriculum ( IF 2.214 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-14 , DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2019.1692860
Graziela N. M. Dekeyser 1, 2 , Paul Puschmann 2, 3 , Orhan Agirdag 1, 4
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ABSTRACT

An increasing number of ethnolinguistic minority children in European cities grow up multilingual, being proficient in more than one language. Current public and political debates often insinuate that these children's language behaviour is a reflection of their identification with and integration in society. Though some empirical studies have corroborated this idea, others have contested it, suggesting that a more detailed analysis of the identity-language link is advisable. This quantitative study investigates if and how language practices, language exposure and language proficiencies differentially shape identification with the majority group and the ethnolinguistic minority group among a sample of primary school children (N = 528; ages 10–12) living in Antwerp, Belgium. Our results suggest that identification with these two groups involves separate processes and as such, this study helps to nuance the polarised public and political debate in Belgium about the role of language as an indicator of integration. In addition, the findings suggest that the essentializing of language within formal institutions such as schools, may contribute to the large share of children reporting that they strongly identify with the ethnolinguistic minority group as compared to the number of children strongly identifying with Belgium.



中文翻译:

多种语言,多种身份?儿童的语言特征及其民族和民族认同

摘要

在欧洲城市中,越来越多的使用民族语言的少数民族儿童会说多种语言,精通一种以上的语言。当前的公共和政治辩论经常暗示这些儿童的语言行为反映了他们对社会的认同和融合。尽管一些经验研究证实了这一想法,但其他人对此提出了质疑,这表明建议对身份-语言链接进行更详细的分析。这项定量研究调查了在小学生样本中,语言习惯,语言暴露程度和语言能力是否与多数群体和民族语言少数群体的识别方式不同(N = 528; 10–12岁)住在比利时安特卫普。我们的结果表明,与这两个群体的认同涉及不同的过程,因此,本研究有助于细化比利时关于语言作为融合指标的作用的两极分化的公共和政治辩论。此外,研究结果表明,在学校等正规机构中,对语言的本质化可能会导致大量儿童报告称,与强烈认同比利时的儿童相比,他们强烈认同民族语言少数群体。

更新日期:2019-11-14
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