Language and Identity: Multilingual Immigrant Learners in South Africa

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2020.1769713

S. Vandeyar, Theresa Catalano

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Abstract

Abstract Increased multilingualism and mobility have witnessed an increased focus on multilingual immigrant learners. This study aims to help educators understand experiences of immigrant students in South Africa that relate to language and identity by comparing such experiences across three different school settings: an urban school with a high (Black) immigrant and indigenous population, a former Indian school, and a former White school. Drawing on semi-structured interviews from a larger case study, this study makes visible the immigrant learner experience in multilingual settings in which xenophobic conditions arise. The findings reveal similarities as well as differences in individual identity construction and negotiation and its vital connection to language. Furthermore, they illustrate ways in which these learners must navigate xenophobic trends, exclusive language pedagogies, and language loss. The implications of this study point to a call for policy, practice, and research to take into account multilingual immigrant learners as well as a need to attend to the social construction of identities.

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语言与身份:南非的多语种移民学习者

多语言使用和流动性的增加使得人们越来越关注多语言移民学习者。本研究旨在帮助教育工作者了解南非移民学生在语言和身份认同方面的经历，通过比较三种不同的学校环境:一所城市学校有大量(黑人)移民和土著人口，一所前印度学校和一所前白人学校。本研究利用大型案例研究中的半结构化访谈，揭示了出现仇外情绪的多语言环境下移民学习者的经历。研究结果揭示了个体身份建构和协商的异同及其与语言的重要联系。此外，它们还说明了这些学习者必须如何应对仇外趋势、排他性语言教学法和语言丧失。这项研究的意义在于呼吁政策、实践和研究考虑到多语言移民学习者以及需要关注身份的社会建构。

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.