Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

27.02. Magdalena Kaltseis (Innsbruck): Unveiling Language Ideologies in the Classroom: Insights from Interviews with Teachers of Russian and Ukrainian [zoom]

Language ideologies are commonly understood as “any sets of beliefs about language articulated by users” (Silverstein 1979) and various studies show that these ideologies play a crucial role in (language) teaching. In my presentation, I will share the results of my interview study with teachers of Russian and Ukrainian and unveil their language ideologies. In particular, I will focus on the teachers’ concept of the ‘native speaker’ and the ideological assumptions that this concept contains and conveys.