Sunyol, A;
(2021)
Now it s "on demand": The catalan language in an elite international school.
Revista de Llengua i Dret
(75)
pp. 126-143.
10.2436/rld.i75.2021.3591.
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Abstract
In Catalonia, the number of international schools has increased continuously since 2008. Internationalization can be undertaken in very different ways in each centre, but internationalization often involves intensifying the presence of English, and including curricula such as those offered by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). As such these schools are often imagined as centres that "do everything in English". This article adopts a critical ethnographic perspective to nuance this idea, starting from the study of the practices and discourses on multilingualism and the Catalan language circulating in the educational community of the Forum International School, a school founded in the late 80s and which has recently become internationalised. This study explores how the Catalan language is constructed in these environments, which have not been greatly studied so far, what linguistic ideologies inform the value of Catalan, and how the desire to take advantage of various languages reflects broader political, economic, and social processes.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Now it s "on demand": The catalan language in an elite international school |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.2436/rld.i75.2021.3591 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2436/rld.i75.2021.3591 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author 2021. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Catalan language; international education; sociolinguistic ethnography; linguistic ideologies |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166034 |
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