Implications of teachers’ attitudes towards unofficial languages on english language teaching in multilingual Zambia.
| dc.contributor.author | Mwanza, David Sani | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-01T08:39:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-01T08:39:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Article | |
| dc.description.abstract | Zambia is a multilingual and multi-ethnic country. Amid 73 dialects spoken in the country, English is the official language and the only school compulsory language subject from grade one to the last grade of secondary education. According to 2010 statistics, only 1.7% of a Zambian population which was approximately 13 million people, spoke and understood English. This meant that the vast majority of the people (including pupils) spoke Zambian Languages. Drawing on Basil Berstein’s Code and Pedagogical Discourses Theory, the study intended to establish the attitudes of teachers towards unofficial languages and the implications such attitudes would have on the expected teachers’ juxtaposition of the horizontal and vertical discourses in selected Multilingual classrooms of Zambia. A qualitative study involving 18 grade 11 secondary school teachers of English were sampled. Data was collected through interviews and participant observation. The findings show that teachers held monolingual purist language ideologies in which their negative attitudes towards unofficial languages resulted into symbolic violence. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mwanza, D.S. (2017). Implications of Teachers’ Attitudes towards Unofficial languages on English Language Teaching in Multilingual Zambia. Zambian Journal of Language Studies, 1(1), 101-124 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/8261 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Zambian Journal of Language Studies | en |
| dc.subject | Teachers | en |
| dc.subject | English | en |
| dc.subject | multilingual | en |
| dc.subject | unofficial language | en |
| dc.subject | zambian languages | en |
| dc.subject | attitudes | en |
| dc.subject | pedagogical discourses | en |
| dc.title | Implications of teachers’ attitudes towards unofficial languages on english language teaching in multilingual Zambia. | |
| dc.type | Article | en |