Vietnamese ethnic minority students' language practices under the influence of external interventions

A management perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2860192
AutoresTrang Thi Thuy Nguyen (0000-0003-0673-2571)
Ano2019
Volume48
Fascículo5
Páginas745-767
Data de publicação2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404519000678
OpenAlexW2974753145
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas47

This article examines Vietnamese ethnic minority students' language practices under the influence of external interventions from a language management perspective. It focuses on the ways the students engage with various levels of interventions in their language practices. The study mainly draws on a group of college-age minority students' experiences and perspectives collected through semistructured interviews. Findings suggest that the students, in making decisions to use their ethnic language and Vietnamese, the mainstream language,respondedto interventions by the school and the ethnic community by adapting to the latter's language policy, whilereinterpretingto conform to/deviate from interventions by other individuals such as their parents, their teachers, or their peers. In that process of managing their language practices, theyreframedtheir identity in which both maintenance and transformation orientations were active. Implications related to minority language policy and language maintenance are then suggested. (Language management, individual language management, language practices, language choice, language policy, language maintenance, ethnic minority

Comprehension approach · Ethnic group · First language · Foreign language · Language assessment · Language education · Language industry · Language policy · Linguistics · Mainstream · Pedagogy · Political science · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Vietnamese · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching