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Hornsby, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Discourses which seek to position different speakers/users of Breton through the use of labels such as 'traditional', 'new', 'learner', 'néo-bretonnant', 'brittophone', etc. draw on persistent essentialist ideologies of language and create, in the process, contested elites and counter-elites in Breton-speaking networks. These discourses can be…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Networks
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Meadows, Bryan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This study explores the interplay of nationalism and English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom practices, as reported in 11 interviews with ELT educators in various locations (e.g., United States, Serbia, France, and Saudi Arabia). The study approach is informed by theories of discursive nationalism which interpret nations and nationalized things…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Heidemann, Kai A. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
This article explores the mobilization dynamics of a school-based minority language revitalization initiative in the French Basque Country, known as the Ikastola Movement. Bringing the study of language revitalization into dialogue with social movement theory, I discuss how the solidarity of Basque language activists was influenced by state-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Second Languages