Self-assessment and standard language ideologies: bilingual adolescents in Sweden reflect on their language proficiencies.
Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language...
| Published in: | Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 137 - 152 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=148880863&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 148880863 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01434632 41M jtl: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development issn: 01434632 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2021 vid: 42 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 148880863 10.1080/01434632.2020.1715988 ppf: 137 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Self-assessment and standard language ideologies: bilingual adolescents in Sweden reflect on their language proficiencies. aug: au: Forsberg, Julia Ribbås, Maria Therese Gross, Johan affil: Department of Languages and Communication, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden su: Language ability testing Standard language Self-evaluation Bilingualism ability testing Teenagers' language Multilingualism Teenagers Sweden sug: subj: Sweden Language ability testing Standard language Self-evaluation Bilingualism ability testing Teenagers' language Multilingualism Teenagers keyword: Adolescent speech audience design language proficiency multilingual adolescents referee design self-assessment ab: Standard language cultures are characterised by beliefs in idealised standard forms of the language in question. In this paper, these beliefs are connected to the concepts of referee design and speech community, through analysis of how Swedish adolescents reflect upon and self-assess their language proficiencies. The data consist of interviews where 111 participants self-assess their Swedish, English and additional home languages. During the self-assessment, participants use different points of reference when reflecting on the different languages in their repertoires. Four main categories of answers are found, all relating to an absent referee in some manner: the participants' evaluations of other people's language proficiency compared to their own; their proficiency in other languages; their evaluation of their proficiency in relation to formal grading and feedback given in school; and their own experiences of their limitations and abilities in different situations. When assessing Swedish, participants display attitudes towards 'good' and 'bad' language and contextualise their proficiency in a way that focuses on standard language ideologies and their speech community. The same pattern does not occur when participants reflect on their other languages, indicating the important role that the peer group and speech community have in creating and facilitating these ideologies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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