Doctoral Dissertation Research: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning

博士论文研究：乔克托语言意识形态及其对教学的影响

• 批准号: 1061588
• 负责人: Sean O Neill
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1061588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Choctaw; Language

Doctoral student Elizabeth Kickham, under the guidance of Dr. Sean O'Neill (University of Oklahoma), will investigate the relationship between language ideologies, learner motivation, and pedagogical method within the Choctaw Language Program, university class, and community class participants. As part of cultural and linguistic revitalization efforts, the Choctaw language is being taught in several secondary schools, universities, and communities, throughout central and southeastern Oklahoma, using both traditional classroom facilities and online technologies. The research seeks to understand the relationships among different forms of language training, fluency levels and attitudes about language use. It will examine the paradox that despite good levels of demonstrated classroom fluency, students rarely use the language in other contexts even with elder fluent speakers. The methods used to understand student ideas about the importance, utility, and identity functions of the language will involve an iterative process of ethnographic observation of virtual and actual classroom interactions, interviews with participants, and collaboration with community members to interpret data. By bridging the concepts of linguistic performance, cultural performance and language ideology, this research will further understanding of the complexities influencing language learning motivation, language choice, and teaching methods in indigenous language education.This research will contribute to an understanding of the complex interactions within and the impact of the Choctaw Language Program's language preservation and education efforts and thereby assist them in programmatic development. It will also contribute to a wider understanding of heritage and indigenous language education practices and outcomes within the context of language ideologies. In addition, the research will frame language teaching and learning as modes of linguistic performance, reviving the idea that performance occurs not just in formal or artistic forms, but in everyday interactions in which ideas, values, and identity are presented and community values created and recreated.

博士生伊丽莎白Kickham，博士的指导下肖恩奥尼尔（俄克拉荷马州大学），将调查语言意识形态，学习动机和教学方法之间的关系在乔托语言计划，大学类，和社区类的参与者。作为文化和语言振兴工作的一部分，乔托语正在整个俄克拉荷马州中部和东南部的几所中学、大学和社区教授，使用传统的课堂设施和在线技术。 该研究旨在了解不同形式的语言培训，流利程度和语言使用态度之间的关系。它将研究的矛盾，尽管表现出良好的课堂流利的水平，学生很少使用的语言在其他情况下，即使与年长的流利的发言者。用于了解学生对语言的重要性，实用性和身份功能的想法的方法将涉及虚拟和实际课堂互动的民族志观察，与参与者的访谈，以及与社区成员合作解释数据的迭代过程。通过将语言表现、文化表现和语言意识形态的概念联系起来，本研究将进一步理解影响语言学习动机、语言选择、和土著语言教育中的教学方法。这项研究将有助于了解乔托语言计划的语言保护和教育工作中复杂的相互作用和影响，从而帮助他们方案发展。它还将有助于在语言意识形态的背景下更广泛地了解遗产和土著语言教育的做法和成果。 此外，该研究将语言教学和学习框架作为语言表演的模式，复兴表演不仅以正式或艺术形式出现的想法，而且在日常互动中呈现思想，价值观和身份，创造和重建社区价值观。