Doctoral Dissertation Research: Building Bridges: Language Ideology and Mother Tongue Literacy Education in Morocco

密歇根大学博士生詹妮弗·L·霍尔将在朱迪思·T·欧文博士的指导下，研究当代促进成人识字的项目与社会分工和社会控制的历史动态之间的关系。这项研究将在摩洛哥进行，那里有一种创新的成人识字教育方法，称为“帕塞莱尔”。Passerelle的目标是教成年女性首先使用标准阿拉伯语正字法书写她们的母语摩洛哥阿拉伯语或柏柏尔语，然后再过渡到更广泛的标准阿拉伯语识字技能。本研究采用的研究方法包括长期参与观察法、访谈法、调查法和焦点小组会议。研究人员将确定预先存在的、对当地有意义的识字概念，并研究识字学习者、他们的教师和摩洛哥教育工作者的语言意识形态如何影响他们的帕塞莱尔识字计划，并受到他们的影响。研究人员将调查女性在参与该项目前后对扫盲材料的关系。通过使用多地点研究设计，并通过与目前参加扫盲课程的妇女以及四年前完成扫盲培训的妇女进行互动，研究人员将确定参与基于帕塞莱尔的扫盲计划的短期和长期社会和政治后果。这项研究将通过调查对某些语言变体和识字传统的选择性评价如何与其他社会控制机制交织在一起，从而为社会科学理论做出贡献。这项研究还将帮助教育政策制定者和发展专家设计更有效的成人扫盲教育课程。这个项目有助于培养一位社会科学家。

University of Michigan doctoral candidate Jennifer L. Hall, with the guidance of Dr. Judith T. Irvine, will undertake research on the relationship between contemporary programs to promote adult literacy and the historical dynamics of social division and social control. The research will be carried out in Morocco, where there is an innovative approach to adult literacy education called "passerelle." Passerelle aims to teach adult women to first write their mother tongues, Moroccan Arabic or Berber, using Standard Arabic orthography before transitioning them to broader Standard Arabic literacy skills. The research methods to be employed in the study include long-term participation observation, interviews, surveys, and focus group sessions. The researcher will identify pre-existing, locally meaningful notions of literacy and examine how the language ideologies of literacy learners, their teachers, and Moroccan educators influence and are influenced by their experiences with passerelle literacy programs. The researcher will examine women's relationships towards literacy materials before and after participation in the program. By using a multi-sited research design and by interacting both with women currently enrolled in literacy classes as well as women who completed literacy training over four years ago, the researcher will identify the short-term and longer-term social and political consequences of participation in passerelle based literacy programs. This research will contribute to social science theory by investigating how the selective valuation of certain language varieties and literate traditions over others may become entwined with other mechanisms of social control. The research also will help education policy makers and development specialists design more effective adult literacy education courses. This project contributes to the education of a social scientist.