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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Forsberg Lundell, Fanny
• Arvidsson, Klara
• Bouchard, Marie-Eve

Titel

Language ideologies and second language acquisition: the case of French long-term residents in Sweden

Ist Teil von

• Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 2022-07, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-16

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study investigates the possible impact of language ideologies on second language proficiency. Based on interviews and a thematic analysis, we explored language ideologies among French long-term residents in Stockholm, Sweden. The participants had contrasting proficiency levels in the host community language: five were categorised as low-performers of Swedish and five as high-performers of Swedish, based on two linguistic measures. Overall, low-performing and high-performing language users in this sample of French long-term residents in Sweden appear to hold different ideologies related to mobility and language learning. While the low-performers tend to adhere to efficiency-related ideologies and a universalist cosmopolitan worldview, where English as a lingua franca is the most significant capital, the high-performers adhere to ideologies that are more identity-based and closer to assimilationist or nationalist views, where the participants see themselves as joining a majority culture into which they should adapt. High host language proficiency is seen as necessary capital for this. All in all, the study makes a clear case for further studies exploring language ideologies in relation to second language acquisition.