Language Ideologies and English for Academic Purposes Writing: A Case in Ontario

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作者
Kinzie, Stephanie [1 ]
机构
[1] York Univ, Dept Languages Literatures & Linguist, Toronto, ON, Canada
来源
CANADIAN MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW-REVUE CANADIENNE DES LANGUES VIVANTES | 2024年 / 80卷 / 01期
关键词
langue savante; discours; EAP; anglais; ideologie; langue courante; ecriture; TEACHERS; REFLECTIONS; IDENTITY; PROPER;
D O I
10.3138/cmlr-2023-001
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
The field of language instruction is crucial in Canada, given the number of newcomers seeking to improve their English (or French) language skills after arrival. For those who plan to enter post-secondary education but do not meet required language proficiency scores, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs provide opportunities to strengthen linguistic and academic skills. These inarguably pragmatic goals are often unquestioned, yet EAP instruction is an ideological undertaking with social, economic, and political consequences. This qualitative study investigates language ideologies - rationalizations and justifications for language use and form - through interviews with EAP writing instructors. As participants discussed the material they teaught, the language skills students developed, and the consequences of studying EAP writing, ideologies regarding what forms of language should be taught, the purposes of academic writing (instruction), and the social and political dimensions of language were (re)produced and resisted. Formative influences on these ideologies included education, upbringing, and personal language learning experiences. Developing a critical awareness of the understandings of language that inform teaching and learning can make more transparent the linguistic and social discourses that circulate within and beyond EAP writing classrooms and help instructors, students, and other EAP community members (re)produce or resist them strategically. Le domaine de l'enseignement des langues est crucial au Canada, etant donne le nombre de nouveaux arrivants qui cherchent a ameliorer leurs competences linguistiques en anglais (ou en francais) apres leur arrivee. Les programmes d'anglais a des fins educatives (English for Academic Purposes, EAP) permettent aux personnes qui envisagent d'entreprendre des etudes postsecondaires sans avoir les competences linguistiques requises de renforcer leurs competences linguistiques et scolaires. Cet objectif incontestablement pragmatique n'est presque jamais remis en question, meme si l'enseignement de l'EAP est une demarche ideologique qui a des consequences sociales, economiques et politiques. La presente etude qualitative examine les ideologies linguistiques - les rationalisations et justifications concernant l'utilisation et la forme de la langue - au moyen d'entretiens avec des formateurs a la redaction en EAP. La discussion sur la matiere enseignee, les competences linguistiques developpees par les etudiants et les consequences de l'apprentissage de la redaction en EAP a amene les participants a (re)produire ou a combattre des ideologies concernant les formes de langue a enseigner, les objectifs de la redaction academique (l'instruction) ainsi que les dimensions sociales et politiques de la langue. Ces ideologies subissent l'influence des etudes, de l'education et des experiences personnelles d'apprentissage des langues. Le developpement d'une conscience critique des conceptions de la langue qui sous-tendent l'enseignement et l'apprentissage peut accroitre la transparence des discours linguistiques et sociaux qui circulent tant a l'interieur qu'a l'exterieur des classes d'ecriture en EAP et aider les enseignants, les etudiants et les autres intervenants du domaine de l'EAP a les (re)produire ou a les combattre de facon strategique.
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