Itesh Sachdev
Biographic Data
| ID | 81673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Itesh Sachdev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Itesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachdev |
| SIGNATURE | SACHDEV I |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 378 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Assessing 40 Years of Group Vitality Research and Future Directions
This article provides key group vitality concepts followed by a selective overview of four decades of research on vitality issues. Group vitality is what makes language communities behave as distinctive and active collective entities within multilingual settings. Three structural factors combine to foster strong to weak group vitality: demographic factors, institutional support, and status. The objective vitality framework uses available census a…
Community Languages
This article presents the main findings and recommendations from a study investigating provision for community language learning in higher education in England (McPake & Sachdev, 2008). Changing attitudes towards the value of community languages – defined as ‘all languages in use in a society, other than the dominant, official or national language’ (McPake, 2006) – have led to increased opportunities for schoolchildren to study and acquire formal…
Intercultural communicative competence
This paper reports on an investigation into the beliefs and practices of experienced teachers in the USA, UK and France relating to the application of a model of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to English language programmes. Broadly, ‘intercultural’ approaches to language learning and teaching are strongly advocated in both the recent theoretical applied linguistics literature and in curricular guidance in frameworks such as the Cou…
Bilingual behaviour, attitudes, identity and vitality
Although the Japanese community in London is relatively small, its composition is stable and reflects several aspects of Japan's relationship with the international community. Yet there appears to have been no systematic research exploring patterns of bilingual behaviour in relation to social psychological processes amongst Japanese nationals in London. The 95 participants in this study were all Japanese nationals, who came from three major group…
Communication, Language, and Discrimination
This article provides a general overview on language and discrimination from the point of view of the social psychology of language. Following a short historical preamble, it provides a brief introduction to the research that was part of the special task force on Language and Discrimination established by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The task force aimed to draw attention to current conceptualizations of the li…
‘I Like the Americans… But I Certainly Don't Aim for an American Accent’
The power and status of America in the world today are undeniable. This paper presents some empirical data about the attitudes and perceptions Danish learners of EFL have about British and American English. Ninety-six EFL learners participated in a verbal-guise experiment that involved rating different accents of English: American, Australian, Received Pronunciation (RP), Scottish and Cockney. Dependent measures on dimensions of status, solidarit…
Identity, Language Use, and Attitudes
Two studies examined the trilingual behavior, attitudes, and perceptions of secondgeneration teenagers of Sylheti-Bangladeshi origin studying Bengali at school. Language diaries and questionnaires were used to obtain data about Sylheti, English, Bengali, and code mixing. Reports of the use of English dominated in the public domains, though it was clear that Bengali also constituted an equally important part of participants' sociolinguistic repert…
Age Vitality Across Eleven Nations
This paper is the second in a series of empirical applications of the concept of (ethnolinguistic) vitality into the intergenerational arena. It examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitalities of young, middle-aged, and elderly targets in four Western (midwest USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) and seven south and east Asian sites (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China, The Philippines, and India). The resul…
Codeswitching in Tunisia
Social Influence and Language Learning
Videotaped discussions (among in-group or out-group members) promoting integrative or instrumental benefits of learningEuropean orAsian languages were presented randomly to participants who subsequently rated several Asian and European languages. Responses from 176 English schoolchildren (males and females, 13 years old) on measures of self-reported contact, identification, perceived status and demographic vitality, desire to learn, and integrati…
The Role of Soclal Identity in Second-Language Proficiency and Use
The present study provides a test of the basic intergroup model of second-language acquisition where subjects were 67 members of the Spanish community in London. Dependent variables comprised measures of actual and self-reported second-language proficiency as well as measures of language use and opinions about language use. Independent variables comprised measures of ingroup identification and perceptions of intergroup relations. Analyses provide…
Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations
Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1986), this study tested the effects of power, status and group numbers on intergroup behaviours and perceptions. Subjects (N = 160) were categorized into groups that varied on status (high or low), power (dominant or subordinate) and group numbers (majority or minority) variables within a 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design. Based on their evaluations of others' creative products, subje…
Status differenttals and intergroup behaviour
This study investigated the independent effects of status differential on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tueland Turner, 1979), subjects were categorized into groups of differing status (high, equal, low) with two levels of category salience (high, low). Using Tajfel's matrices subjects rated the creativity of products ostensibly produced by ingroup and outgroup members. Own group identification, intergroup p…
Social categorization and power differentials in group relations
This study investigated the independent effects of power differentials on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), subjects were arbitrarily categorized into groups of differing power (0‐100 per cent) at two levels of salience. Subjects were asked to distribute resources to ingroup and outgroup others using Tajfel's matrices. Intergroup perceptions, group identifications and self‐reported…
Minimal majorities and minorities
This study is one of a series of experiments designed to examine how sociostructural factors such as group numbers, power and status affect intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's ‘minimal group’ paradigm the present study investigated the intergroup behaviour of college students categorized as numerical minority, majority or ‘equal’ group members. The effects of salient (S) versus non‐salient (S̄) group categorizations were also examin…
Vitality Perceptions and Language Attitudes
Italian (IC) and English (EC) Canadians, in two school settings, completed the Subjective Vitality Questionnaire (SVQ) and a sociolinguistic questionnaire concerning self-reported usage and evaluations of Italian and English in different domains. SVQ results from the two settings showed that subject perceptions do not necessarily match objective assessments of ethnolinguistic vitality. Both ECs and ICs had more realistic perceptions in a majority…
Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations
Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1986), this study tested the effects of power, status and group numbers on intergroup behaviours and perceptions. Subjects (N = 160) were categorized into groups that varied on status (high or low), power (dominant or subordinate) and group numbers (majority or minority) variables within a 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design. Based on their evaluations of others' creative products, subje…
Status differenttals and intergroup behaviour
This study investigated the independent effects of status differential on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tueland Turner, 1979), subjects were categorized into groups of differing status (high, equal, low) with two levels of category salience (high, low). Using Tajfel's matrices subjects rated the creativity of products ostensibly produced by ingroup and outgroup members. Own group identification, intergroup p…
Vitality Perceptions and Language Attitudes
Italian (IC) and English (EC) Canadians, in two school settings, completed the Subjective Vitality Questionnaire (SVQ) and a sociolinguistic questionnaire concerning self-reported usage and evaluations of Italian and English in different domains. SVQ results from the two settings showed that subject perceptions do not necessarily match objective assessments of ethnolinguistic vitality. Both ECs and ICs had more realistic perceptions in a majority…
Social categorization and power differentials in group relations
This study investigated the independent effects of power differentials on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), subjects were arbitrarily categorized into groups of differing power (0‐100 per cent) at two levels of salience. Subjects were asked to distribute resources to ingroup and outgroup others using Tajfel's matrices. Intergroup perceptions, group identifications and self‐reported…
Minimal majorities and minorities
This study is one of a series of experiments designed to examine how sociostructural factors such as group numbers, power and status affect intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's ‘minimal group’ paradigm the present study investigated the intergroup behaviour of college students categorized as numerical minority, majority or ‘equal’ group members. The effects of salient (S) versus non‐salient (S̄) group categorizations were also examin…
Codeswitching in Tunisia
Age Vitality Across Eleven Nations
This paper is the second in a series of empirical applications of the concept of (ethnolinguistic) vitality into the intergenerational arena. It examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitalities of young, middle-aged, and elderly targets in four Western (midwest USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) and seven south and east Asian sites (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China, The Philippines, and India). The resul…
Assessing 40 Years of Group Vitality Research and Future Directions
This article provides key group vitality concepts followed by a selective overview of four decades of research on vitality issues. Group vitality is what makes language communities behave as distinctive and active collective entities within multilingual settings. Three structural factors combine to foster strong to weak group vitality: demographic factors, institutional support, and status. The objective vitality framework uses available census a…
Identity, Language Use, and Attitudes
Two studies examined the trilingual behavior, attitudes, and perceptions of secondgeneration teenagers of Sylheti-Bangladeshi origin studying Bengali at school. Language diaries and questionnaires were used to obtain data about Sylheti, English, Bengali, and code mixing. Reports of the use of English dominated in the public domains, though it was clear that Bengali also constituted an equally important part of participants' sociolinguistic repert…
The Role of Soclal Identity in Second-Language Proficiency and Use
The present study provides a test of the basic intergroup model of second-language acquisition where subjects were 67 members of the Spanish community in London. Dependent variables comprised measures of actual and self-reported second-language proficiency as well as measures of language use and opinions about language use. Independent variables comprised measures of ingroup identification and perceptions of intergroup relations. Analyses provide…
Bilingual behaviour, attitudes, identity and vitality
Although the Japanese community in London is relatively small, its composition is stable and reflects several aspects of Japan's relationship with the international community. Yet there appears to have been no systematic research exploring patterns of bilingual behaviour in relation to social psychological processes amongst Japanese nationals in London. The 95 participants in this study were all Japanese nationals, who came from three major group…
Community Languages
This article presents the main findings and recommendations from a study investigating provision for community language learning in higher education in England (McPake & Sachdev, 2008). Changing attitudes towards the value of community languages – defined as ‘all languages in use in a society, other than the dominant, official or national language’ (McPake, 2006) – have led to increased opportunities for schoolchildren to study and acquire formal…
Communication, Language, and Discrimination
This article provides a general overview on language and discrimination from the point of view of the social psychology of language. Following a short historical preamble, it provides a brief introduction to the research that was part of the special task force on Language and Discrimination established by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The task force aimed to draw attention to current conceptualizations of the li…
Social Influence and Language Learning
Videotaped discussions (among in-group or out-group members) promoting integrative or instrumental benefits of learningEuropean orAsian languages were presented randomly to participants who subsequently rated several Asian and European languages. Responses from 176 English schoolchildren (males and females, 13 years old) on measures of self-reported contact, identification, perceived status and demographic vitality, desire to learn, and integrati…
Minimal majorities and minorities
This study is one of a series of experiments designed to examine how sociostructural factors such as group numbers, power and status affect intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's ‘minimal group’ paradigm the present study investigated the intergroup behaviour of college students categorized as numerical minority, majority or ‘equal’ group members. The effects of salient (S) versus non‐salient (S̄) group categorizations were also examin…
Vitality Perceptions and Language Attitudes
Italian (IC) and English (EC) Canadians, in two school settings, completed the Subjective Vitality Questionnaire (SVQ) and a sociolinguistic questionnaire concerning self-reported usage and evaluations of Italian and English in different domains. SVQ results from the two settings showed that subject perceptions do not necessarily match objective assessments of ethnolinguistic vitality. Both ECs and ICs had more realistic perceptions in a majority…
Social categorization and power differentials in group relations
This study investigated the independent effects of power differentials on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of Tajfel's minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), subjects were arbitrarily categorized into groups of differing power (0‐100 per cent) at two levels of salience. Subjects were asked to distribute resources to ingroup and outgroup others using Tajfel's matrices. Intergroup perceptions, group identifications and self‐reported…
Status differenttals and intergroup behaviour
This study investigated the independent effects of status differential on intergroup behaviour. Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tueland Turner, 1979), subjects were categorized into groups of differing status (high, equal, low) with two levels of category salience (high, low). Using Tajfel's matrices subjects rated the creativity of products ostensibly produced by ingroup and outgroup members. Own group identification, intergroup p…
Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations
Using a variant of the minimal group paradigm (Tajfel and Turner, 1986), this study tested the effects of power, status and group numbers on intergroup behaviours and perceptions. Subjects (N = 160) were categorized into groups that varied on status (high or low), power (dominant or subordinate) and group numbers (majority or minority) variables within a 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design. Based on their evaluations of others' creative products, subje…
The Role of Soclal Identity in Second-Language Proficiency and Use
The present study provides a test of the basic intergroup model of second-language acquisition where subjects were 67 members of the Spanish community in London. Dependent variables comprised measures of actual and self-reported second-language proficiency as well as measures of language use and opinions about language use. Independent variables comprised measures of ingroup identification and perceptions of intergroup relations. Analyses provide…
Social Influence and Language Learning
Videotaped discussions (among in-group or out-group members) promoting integrative or instrumental benefits of learningEuropean orAsian languages were presented randomly to participants who subsequently rated several Asian and European languages. Responses from 176 English schoolchildren (males and females, 13 years old) on measures of self-reported contact, identification, perceived status and demographic vitality, desire to learn, and integrati…
Age Vitality Across Eleven Nations
This paper is the second in a series of empirical applications of the concept of (ethnolinguistic) vitality into the intergenerational arena. It examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitalities of young, middle-aged, and elderly targets in four Western (midwest USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) and seven south and east Asian sites (Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China, The Philippines, and India). The resul…
Codeswitching in Tunisia
Identity, Language Use, and Attitudes
Two studies examined the trilingual behavior, attitudes, and perceptions of secondgeneration teenagers of Sylheti-Bangladeshi origin studying Bengali at school. Language diaries and questionnaires were used to obtain data about Sylheti, English, Bengali, and code mixing. Reports of the use of English dominated in the public domains, though it was clear that Bengali also constituted an equally important part of participants' sociolinguistic repert…
‘I Like the Americans… But I Certainly Don't Aim for an American Accent’
The power and status of America in the world today are undeniable. This paper presents some empirical data about the attitudes and perceptions Danish learners of EFL have about British and American English. Ninety-six EFL learners participated in a verbal-guise experiment that involved rating different accents of English: American, Australian, Received Pronunciation (RP), Scottish and Cockney. Dependent measures on dimensions of status, solidarit…
Communication, Language, and Discrimination
This article provides a general overview on language and discrimination from the point of view of the social psychology of language. Following a short historical preamble, it provides a brief introduction to the research that was part of the special task force on Language and Discrimination established by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. The task force aimed to draw attention to current conceptualizations of the li…
Bilingual behaviour, attitudes, identity and vitality
Although the Japanese community in London is relatively small, its composition is stable and reflects several aspects of Japan's relationship with the international community. Yet there appears to have been no systematic research exploring patterns of bilingual behaviour in relation to social psychological processes amongst Japanese nationals in London. The 95 participants in this study were all Japanese nationals, who came from three major group…
Intercultural communicative competence
This paper reports on an investigation into the beliefs and practices of experienced teachers in the USA, UK and France relating to the application of a model of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to English language programmes. Broadly, ‘intercultural’ approaches to language learning and teaching are strongly advocated in both the recent theoretical applied linguistics literature and in curricular guidance in frameworks such as the Cou…
Community Languages
This article presents the main findings and recommendations from a study investigating provision for community language learning in higher education in England (McPake & Sachdev, 2008). Changing attitudes towards the value of community languages – defined as ‘all languages in use in a society, other than the dominant, official or national language’ (McPake, 2006) – have led to increased opportunities for schoolchildren to study and acquire formal…
Assessing 40 Years of Group Vitality Research and Future Directions
This article provides key group vitality concepts followed by a selective overview of four decades of research on vitality issues. Group vitality is what makes language communities behave as distinctive and active collective entities within multilingual settings. Three structural factors combine to foster strong to weak group vitality: demographic factors, institutional support, and status. The objective vitality framework uses available census a…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Vitality (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Social group (6 works) · Social identity theory (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works)