Ritual and foreign language practices at school

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ID2869593
AutoresBen Rampton (0000-0002-2437-1944, King's College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume31
Fascículo4
Páginas491-525
Data de publicação2002-10-01
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/s0047404502314015
OpenAlexW2170316703
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas32

This article focuses on adolescents at an inner-London secondary school who are learning German rather reluctantly in a foreign language class, and then using the language to play around elsewhere. I argue that the language teacher's pedagogic methods turned the German lessons into relatively intense institutional rituals, and that the lessons provided symbolic and socio-emotional material that students subsequently inverted in a set of micro-ritual improvisations. There are some endemic problems of evidence in the argument that instructed German was connected to improvised Deutsch by cause-and-effect processes associated with ritual, but the discussion ends by affirming ritual's value as an analytic frame that can be applied both to institutional language learning and to historical shifts in classroom experience

Argument (complex analysis) · Class (philosophy) · Epistemology · Foreign language · Frame (networking) · German · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy