Gundarina, O orcid.org/0000-0003-1548-4565 and Simpson, J (2022) A monolingual approach in an English primary school: practices and implications. Language and Education, 36 (6). pp. 523-543. ISSN 0950-0782
Abstract
This paper investigates a monolingual approach to the teaching of linguistic minority pupils in an English primary school at Key Stage Two (7–11 years old). The work is based on a longitudinal case study of one Russian-speaking migrant pupil and her schooled experience. The analysis and discussion explicate the prohibition of the first or home language (Russian) in the school, and reveal how denying a seven-year-old migrant child permission to use her L1 is detrimental to her learning experience and her well-being. The focal data derive from participant-observation fieldnotes, visual artefacts and interviews with the child, her mother, and a class teacher over a 7-month period. Through an analysis of the participants’ stancetaking, we show how the pupil’s voice is inaudible in her struggle against a monolingual attitude towards her bilingualism and multicompetence. Our contribution therefore builds on work in critical migrant language education, to identify the importance of enabling the presence of the L1 in learning for migrant pupils.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | EAL; Home language; language ideology; linguistic minority; Russian-speaking migrant |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2021 10:01 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09500782.2021.1945084 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:175932 |