Journal of English for academic purposes, Apr 1, 2024
This paper focuses on tertiary English as an additional language (EAL) students' ethical ... more This paper focuses on tertiary English as an additional language (EAL) students' ethical choices, and the factors impacting on them, when deciding whether to engage with artificially-intelligent (AI) machine translation (MT) tools for the writing of university assignments. It also investigates how student responses align with either deficit-oriented or translanguaging theoretical perspectives. Via semi-structured interviews, the voices of 23 EAL nursing and midwifery students indicate an array of ethical positions which are based on three key areas of consideration: 1) ownership of language and ideas; 2) fairness and respect; and 3) personal growth. The study highlights the scalar, strategic and dynamic nature of students' ethical decisions and shows that questions of ethicality tap into individual, social and institutional constructs of fairness and respect, skills recognition, lifelong learning and language dominion. The findings also indicate that discussions of fairness should focus not only on differences between non-EAL and EAL students, but also inequalities within EAL cohorts. Student responses provide evidence of both deficit-oriented and translanguaging perspectives. The researchers call for universities to create clear policies concerning use of MT that recognise the levels of reflection that students engage in when writing their assignments and value the full linguistic repertoires that students bring to global educational settings.
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the speakers of the dialect perceive this policy and how they think that it will affect the future of their language and culture. Additionally, it will be investigated if the dominant Turkish culture is aiming to absorb, replace, and eventually eliminate the Turkish Cypriot identity through language. Furthermore, it is going to be examined how important linguistic assimilation is for the cultural assimilation of a group, and if the branding and marginalising of a linguistic variety has the same effect on its speakers.
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the spea...
Author(s): Petraki, Elpida | Advisor(s): Plann, Susan J | Abstract: Since Greece entered the EU, ... more Author(s): Petraki, Elpida | Advisor(s): Plann, Susan J | Abstract: Since Greece entered the EU, language learning has become prominent and gained further momentum in the context of modern globalized economy. Acknowledging the intense commodification of the modern foreign language education industry, this research explores Greek Foreign Language Learner (FLL) investment in multiple foreign languages, and how symbolic value can influence it. To this purpose, I borrow the definition of symbolic value from the field of sociology—namely the context-dependent sociocultural meanings associated with commodities, or in the context of this research, languages—and, grounded on the construct of investment (Darvin a Norton, 2015), which is located at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital, I perform a thematic analysis of thirty-three semi-structured, in-depth, interviews conducted with Greek FLLs. The results lead to the following conclusions: i) knowledge of English is so widespr...
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the spea...
Journal of English for academic purposes, Apr 1, 2024
This paper focuses on tertiary English as an additional language (EAL) students' ethical ... more This paper focuses on tertiary English as an additional language (EAL) students' ethical choices, and the factors impacting on them, when deciding whether to engage with artificially-intelligent (AI) machine translation (MT) tools for the writing of university assignments. It also investigates how student responses align with either deficit-oriented or translanguaging theoretical perspectives. Via semi-structured interviews, the voices of 23 EAL nursing and midwifery students indicate an array of ethical positions which are based on three key areas of consideration: 1) ownership of language and ideas; 2) fairness and respect; and 3) personal growth. The study highlights the scalar, strategic and dynamic nature of students' ethical decisions and shows that questions of ethicality tap into individual, social and institutional constructs of fairness and respect, skills recognition, lifelong learning and language dominion. The findings also indicate that discussions of fairness should focus not only on differences between non-EAL and EAL students, but also inequalities within EAL cohorts. Student responses provide evidence of both deficit-oriented and translanguaging perspectives. The researchers call for universities to create clear policies concerning use of MT that recognise the levels of reflection that students engage in when writing their assignments and value the full linguistic repertoires that students bring to global educational settings.
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the speakers of the dialect perceive this policy and how they think that it will affect the future of their language and culture. Additionally, it will be investigated if the dominant Turkish culture is aiming to absorb, replace, and eventually eliminate the Turkish Cypriot identity through language. Furthermore, it is going to be examined how important linguistic assimilation is for the cultural assimilation of a group, and if the branding and marginalising of a linguistic variety has the same effect on its speakers.
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the spea...
Author(s): Petraki, Elpida | Advisor(s): Plann, Susan J | Abstract: Since Greece entered the EU, ... more Author(s): Petraki, Elpida | Advisor(s): Plann, Susan J | Abstract: Since Greece entered the EU, language learning has become prominent and gained further momentum in the context of modern globalized economy. Acknowledging the intense commodification of the modern foreign language education industry, this research explores Greek Foreign Language Learner (FLL) investment in multiple foreign languages, and how symbolic value can influence it. To this purpose, I borrow the definition of symbolic value from the field of sociology—namely the context-dependent sociocultural meanings associated with commodities, or in the context of this research, languages—and, grounded on the construct of investment (Darvin a Norton, 2015), which is located at the intersection of identity, ideology, and capital, I perform a thematic analysis of thirty-three semi-structured, in-depth, interviews conducted with Greek FLLs. The results lead to the following conclusions: i) knowledge of English is so widespr...
The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and ... more The importance of language in the perception of ourselves and the world around us is crucial and indubitable. Nevertheless language also seems to have a vital role in the building process of the modern nation-state. This study investigates the role of language in forging and reshaping national identities. In particular, through a qualitative research, I attempted to examine the effect of a language engineering policy on the national identity of the speakers of the linguistic variety which is at the target of that campaign. The participants of the study were Turkish speaking Cypriots, all speakers of a Turkish dialect, spoken in Cyprus, called Gibrislidja; namely Cypriot Turkish. In 2009 it was decided that the dialect would no longer be broadcasted on the television or radio of Northern Cyprus, as it was characterised as “bad” Turkish, and that it was going to be replaced by Standard Turkish, which is perceived as a superior linguistic variety. So, I will be focusing on how the spea...
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