Linguistic ideologies of students in teacher training: the construction of (linguistic) diversity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2019.2.1Keywords:
critical sociolinguistics, linguistic ideologies, teacher trainingAbstract
This study investigates the relation between students in teacher training and linguistic ideologies, the construction of (linguistic) otherness within the framework of critical sociolinguistics. This paper is the short summary of the research project „Inclusive higher education: the constructions of superdiversity and changing ideologies” funded within the New National Excellence Program. The aim is to gain insight into the views of prospective teachers on linguistic diversity through the analysis of empirical data, to reveal the underlying ideologies, and to identify groups that are thematized differently along various features by the respondents. Results show that the categorization of ′otherness′ (diversity) emerges in the discourse of students in teacher training. Diversity is defined on the basis of visible physical differences but smaller groups and individual differences also emerge.