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Direct linkMacRuairc, Gerry – Language and Education, 2011
The central role played by language in mediating school experience and the prestige accorded to standard language varieties within the field of education provide the broad rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus-group design, was conducted in two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting "ideal…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Variation, Educational Experience, Elementary School Students
Preece, Sian – Language and Education, 2010
This paper examines linguistic diversity among minority ethnic undergraduate students categorised as from widening participation backgrounds in a new university in London. All students are British born and educated and from working-class families. The paper considers how the students negotiate multilingual and bidialectal identities within the…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Multilingualism
