Homogenization through inclusion: exploring language regimes at four multilingual schools in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2023.2192336?scroll=top&needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2023.2192336?scroll=top&needAccess=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2023.2192336" target="_blank" >10.1080/13670050.2023.2192336</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Homogenization through inclusion: exploring language regimes at four multilingual schools in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Linguistic diversity at Czech schools has increased in the last decade, and it has become a new everyday reality. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of studies investigating lived experiences with managing multilingualism at schools. Our study examines schools as multilingual social spaces in which the visible language choice on signs reveals the language regime based on ideologies and policies. We contextualize our study according to top-down language policy, and the essential theoretical concepts such as social space or language regime are explained. The linguistic landscapes at schools (so-called schoolscapes) are analysed and interpreted to capture schools as multilingual social spaces. The focus lies on (1) displayed languages; (2) authorship of the object: (3) location of the object. The data from schoolscaping are complemented by interviews with school principals, who are responsible for language choice decisions. The investigation took place in four schools, where multilingualism plays an essential role. The results indicate that despite the multilingual reality and the promotion of multilingualism by anchoring it in the agenda of inclusive education, language homogenization is operative in schools. Our results are relevant for exploring the linguistic environments and language regimes at schools and reveal possible explanations for linguistic homogenization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-12624S" target="_blank" >GA19-12624S: School as a multilingual space? Exploring linguistic realities at Czech urban schools (MultiSpace)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM

ISSN

1367-0050

e-ISSN

1747-7522

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

285-300

UT code for WoS article

000961189400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85151414064