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Language Attitudes of a Multilingual Speaker
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Andrej Abramušić One of the prominent results of globalization is the rise of multilingualism and the importance of English in countries where English is not a native language, particularly in the work sphere. Sociolinguistic research on SLLs shows how factors such as education, migration, media, etc. shape people’s attitudes towards language and identifies the opposing language ideologies that can influence these attitudes. The focus of this paper is the influence of language learning and usage context on...
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Language Biography of a Bilingual Australian Family
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Ivana Vasić Scientists studying identity in SLLs (Second Language Learners) have concluded that categories which shape a person's identity such as gender, nationality, language etc. are constantly in a process of transformation. By acquiring knowledge and experience people change their attitudes and consequently re-shape their identity. The focus of this thesis is the change in attitudes towards language. The research is based on the premise that the acquisition of another language and a multicultural...
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Language Ideologies and Correction Practices in Formal Education
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Barbara Božinović This paper analyses how teachers’ discourse and attitudes affect students, by focusing on linguistic and extralinguistic ideologies present in the educational context. The study shows how teachers affect students through discourse and when their discourse is considered as a tool for motivation, and when it is not, as well as how discourse is used to establish authority. The data was collected through sociolinguistic interviews. Ten participants were asked to take part in this research and...
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Language Ideologies and Stereotypes in Fantasy Video Games
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Martina Belančić The way we speak can influence the way others perceive us, to the point of bringing social advantage or disadvantage. Language ideology is a set of beliefs about language that serves as a rationalization or justification of such biased value judgments. Media play a big role in spreading language ideology. Video games are a form of media that has been largely neglected by linguists, despite constituting a significant part of the 21st-century cultural corpus. Fantasy video games are an...
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Language Ideologies in Informatics Teaching
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Barbara Hršak This paper presents the results of a series of semi-structured sociolinguistic interviews conducted in person between Informatics teachers and the researcher. The researcher is a fifth year university student of linguistics and all of the respondents are Informatics teachers in primary schools in the Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia with more or less subtle variation in their age, education, place of work, and teaching experience. The study examines the respondents’ opinions, ideas and...
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Language Ideologies on TikTok
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Domagoj Gregorović This Master’s thesis found nine TikToks which present language ideologies and analysed them through the lens of Multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA). The goal of this paper was to find out what language ideologies are disseminated in the modern landscape of social media, and in what ways, using the modern tools these applications provide. In the introduction it is noted that TikTok seems to be the best platform to carry out this research as it boasts a considerable number of...
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Language anxiety of Croatian high-school students: a comparison between Croatian and English
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Ana Debogović This thesis investigates the notion of language anxiety by examining language anxiety rates of Croatian high-school students. Language anxiety is considered to be a complex phenomenon specific to the language learning context and has thus been extensively researched over the last few decades. The purpose of this study was to investigate levels of language anxiety experienced by high-school students in their Croatian Language and English as a Foreign Language Classrooms. More specifically,...
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Language ideologies about English and Croatian on Facebook
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Vinka Grbavac Today, technology and language are in a close relationship. This paper analyzes their
connection through social media and language ideologies. More specifically, two Facebook
groups focused on language ‘mistakes’ are investigated as a source of language ideologies.
The aim of this paper is to analyze online posts and the related comments by using critical
discourse analysis. The first part of the paper presents some theoretical concepts regarding
ideology and language...
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Las actitudes de los alumnos hacia el uso del subjuntivo en la comunicación en español
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Tea Dominković El tema de este trabajo de fin de máster son las actitudes de los alumnos de ELE hacia el uso del subjuntivo en la comunicación en español. En la primera parte, parte teórica, hacemos un resumen de la bibliografía sobre la competencia comunicativa, competencia lingüística y dentro de estas dos competencias describimos el uso del presente de subjuntivo. Describiendo el uso del presente de subjuntivo hemos utilizado el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes (PCIC, 2006) con nivel de...
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Las actitudes de los alumnos hacia la música como recurso didáctico en la enseñanza de ELE
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Silvija Cesarec El tema, y al mismo tiempo el objetivo de este trabajo, es una investigación de las actitudes de los alumnos de ELE hacia el uso de la música como un recurso didáctico. La parte teórica está constituida por cuatro capítulos. El tema del primer capítulo es el desarrollo del enfoque comunicativo en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y la competencia comunicativa que está relacionada con el uso de la música en la enseñanza. El segundo capítulo está dedicado a la música como...
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