1st Edition
Language Conflict in Educational Settings International Perspectives
Language Conflict in Educational Settings: International Perspectives delves into the intriguing intersection of contact linguistics and education, a topic that has been relatively unexplored until now.
With contributions from scholars across the globe, the book ventures into the realms of conflict linguistics in educational scenarios. Language contact, often fraught with internal and external conflicts, impacts education significantly. Drawing on scholarship representative of different locations, backgrounds, and disciplinary angles, the authors present studies of pairs and triads of different language families from across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, ultimately demonstrating how language contact leads to conflict, and how the latter eventually affects education processes and outcomes. Presenting a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodologies, it asks to what extent these impacts are detrimental to educational outcomes, and more specifically, how language conflict can impact education in the form of policy, teaching and learning. As such, it provides essential insights for educators, policy makers and professionals in the fields of education, linguistics and cultural studies, offering valuable case studies in the under-researched field of language conflict. It ultimately contributes to the enhancement of education in language contact contexts and foster a deeper understanding of this critical intersection.
This book is an invaluable resource for researchers, scholars and teacher-educators, offering insights to help understand such an intricate phenomenon, as well as those working across language education, linguistics, and the sociology of language more broadly.
Introduction. Why language contact leads to conflict and its relevance for education
Yliana V. Rodríguez & Adolfo Elizaincín
Part 1. How is linguistic diversity experienced and addressed in the classroom?
Chapter 1. Conflict-friendly centripetal forces in the Mauritian linguistic landscape.
Shameem Oozeerally & Helina Hookoomsing
Chapter 2. Language Conflict in Multilingual Classroom: A Case Study in a Public School in the Kathmandu Valley
Bhim Lal Gautam & Prem Prasad Poudel
Chapter 3. Portuguese in primary schools on the Uruguay-Brazil border: towards a teaching programme
Carla Custodio & Bárbara Garrido
Part 2. In which ways can linguistic policy and planning help or interfere in language conflict contexts?
Chapter 4.When monolingual meets plurilingual: Language ideologies in Brčko District's integrated education
Jelena Božović & Marija Runić
Chapter 5. Language-in-Education and Linguistic Ideologies: A Case Study of Media and Policy Discourse in Catalonia
Farah Ali
Chapter 6. Schools as a battlefield: new linguistic identities and their impact into educational settings in post-Yugoslav countries and abroad.
Valentina Sileo
Chapter 7. Languages in conflict and conflicting Identities – the Hong Kong case
Shui Duen Chan
Part 3. How is language maintained and revitalised in two opposite scenarios?
Chapter 8. Ckunza language policy and the tensions between the community and the State
Elizabeth Torrico-Ávila
Chapter 9. When the policy is to hide the conflict. Language politics and education in the autonomous community of Galicia
Gabino S. Vázquez-Grandío, Xaquín Loredo & Henrique Monteagudo
Part 4. To what extent do hierarchy and hegemony interfere with policy making and teaching practices?
Chapter 10. Examining educators’ attitudes towards language education in the case of Greek Muslim students of Western Thrace in Greece
Christina Maligkoudi
Chapter 11. The language challenge in English-medium instruction classroom in a multilingual setting: A case of an interdisciplinary program in a Japanese university
Miki Shibata
Chapter 12. University Students' Attitudes towards Multilingualism among Ethnolinguistic Communities in South Darfur
Dhahawi S. A. Garri & Abdelrahim Mugaddam
Chapter 13. Spanish teaching in the Falklands. Can a dialect embody conflict?
Yliana V. Rodríguez & Adolfo Elizaincín
Biography
Yliana V. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages Center at the Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Uruguay.
Adolfo Elizaincín is Emeritus Professor at the Universidad de la República (UdelaR), and Member of the Academia Nacional de Letras, Uruguay.
