Becker, Anna (2023)
Teaching Greek as a heritage language in Switzerland – Teachers’ perspectives and lived experiences of language and education.
In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF, 2022, 27 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00024130
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Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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Type of entry: | Secondary publication | ||||||
Title: | Teaching Greek as a heritage language in Switzerland – Teachers’ perspectives and lived experiences of language and education | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Date: | 28 June 2023 | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||||
Year of primary publication: | 2022 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF | ||||||
Volume of the journal: | 27 | ||||||
Issue Number: | 2 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00024130 | ||||||
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Origin: | Secondary publication from TUjournals | ||||||
Abstract: | Switzerland has traditionally been a multilingual country with four national languages and has a plethora of regional dialects. It has also been home to many migrants who, as heritage speakers, enrich the heterogeneous linguistic landscape, yet rarely receive (sufficient) official or institutional recognition. This text investigates teachers’ lived experiences of language and education in a Greek school in Switzerland founded by parents on a voluntary basis to transmit Greek language and culture. It presents data from six in-depth teacher interviews and aims at a better understanding of educational practices and experiences of teachers who are often excluded from local educational institutions. It argues for a greater awareness and recognition of heritage languages, their teachers and learners as well as for a more inclusive and cooperative approach to multilingual education. This can be achieved by integrating heritage language education into mainstream schooling and thus providing legitimacy, a sense of belonging, and equity to all educational sphere actors. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Heritage languages, heritage language teaching, Swiss education system, teacher perspectives, equity, Herkunftssprachen, Herkunftssprachlicher Unterricht, Schweizer Bildungssystem, Perspektiven der Lehrpersonen, Γλώσσες κληρονομιάς, τάξεις γλώσσας και πολιτισμού καταγωγής, ελβετικό εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα, προοπτικές των εκπαιδευτικών, ισότητα | ||||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-241309 | ||||||
Classification DDC: | 400 Language > 400 Language, linguistics | ||||||
Divisions: | 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sprachwissenschaft - Mehrsprachigkeit | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2023 11:45 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2024 08:10 | ||||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/24130 | ||||||
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