ABSTRACT

We compare language policing in two educational contexts in England: mainstream schools and complementary schools. We draw on a varied dataset (policy documents, in-class observations, interviews) collected from mainstream schools and Greek complementary schools in London. We find similarities in how the two types of schools control, regulate, monitor and suppress the language of school students. Both settings hierarchise standardised and non-standardised varieties in institutional policies that delegitimise the non-standardised varieties. Teachers become vehicles for language ideologies in enacting monovarietal policies drawing on discourses around academic success and the primacy of written language over spoken language, including regional varieties such as Cypriot Greek. Our findings suggest that multilingual and multidialectal students in England who attend both mainstream and complementary schools are exposed to similar kinds of prescriptive discourses across the whole spectrum of their educational experiences, which can have a range of negative effects on their learning and the construction of their self-image. We argue that more links need to be forged between the two educational settings and that these should include the development of integrated pedagogies and policies that legitimise students’ whole linguistic repertoires, encompassing both their standardised and their non-standardised varieties as well as their other linguistic resources.

摘要

我们比较了英格兰两种教育环境中的语言警务：主流学校和补充学校。我们利用从伦敦主流学校和希腊补充学校收集的各种数据集（政策文件、课堂观察、访谈）。我们发现这两种类型的学校如何控制、规范、监督和压制学生的语言有相似之处。两种设置都在使非标准化品种合法化的制度政策中对标准化和非标准化品种进行分级。教师成为语言意识形态的载体，通过围绕学术成功和书面语言优先于口语（包括塞浦路斯希腊语等区域变体）的话语制定单一变体政策。我们的研究结果表明，在主流学校和补充学校就读的英格兰多语种和多方言学生在整个教育经历中都会接触到类似的规定性话语，这可能对他们的学习和构建他们的能力产生一系列负面影响。自我形象。我们认为需要在两种教育环境之间建立更多联系，这应该包括制定综合教学法和政策，使学生的整个语言库合法化，包括他们的标准化和非标准化变种以及他们的其他语言资源。这会对他们的学习和自我形象的构建产生一系列负面影响。我们认为需要在两种教育环境之间建立更多联系，这应该包括制定综合教学法和政策，使学生的整个语言库合法化，包括他们的标准化和非标准化变种以及他们的其他语言资源。这会对他们的学习和自我形象的构建产生一系列负面影响。我们认为需要在两种教育环境之间建立更多联系，这应该包括制定综合教学法和政策，使学生的整个语言库合法化，包括他们的标准化和非标准化变种以及他们的其他语言资源。