Intergroup Contact and Minority-Language Education
The authors consider two related approaches that may be important in the amelioration of language-based discrimination. The first focuses on the attitudes of the dominant-language group and applies recent perspectives on the intergroup contact theory to suggest ways of reducing prejudice among membe...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0261927x07300078 2024-09-15T18:15:03+00:00 Intergroup Contact and Minority-Language Education Reducing Language-Based Discrimination and Its Negative Impact Wright, Stephen C. Bougie, Évelyne 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x07300078 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0261927X07300078 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Language and Social Psychology volume 26, issue 2, page 157-181 ISSN 0261-927X 1552-6526 journal-article 2007 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x07300078 2024-09-03T04:20:31Z The authors consider two related approaches that may be important in the amelioration of language-based discrimination. The first focuses on the attitudes of the dominant-language group and applies recent perspectives on the intergroup contact theory to suggest ways of reducing prejudice among members of the dominant group. Research with White/Anglo children in California are used to show the potential benefits of bilingual over English-only education in this regard. The second approach focuses on the psychology of the minority-language group. Supported by research with Inuit children in Arctic Quebec, the authors describe how heritage-language education can have a positive impact on personal and social identity, support heritage-language development, facilitate second-language acquisition, and perhaps buffer the negative impact of discrimination on self-esteem and well-being by supporting the development of strong ingroup identification. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit SAGE Publications Journal of Language and Social Psychology 26 2 157 181 |
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The authors consider two related approaches that may be important in the amelioration of language-based discrimination. The first focuses on the attitudes of the dominant-language group and applies recent perspectives on the intergroup contact theory to suggest ways of reducing prejudice among members of the dominant group. Research with White/Anglo children in California are used to show the potential benefits of bilingual over English-only education in this regard. The second approach focuses on the psychology of the minority-language group. Supported by research with Inuit children in Arctic Quebec, the authors describe how heritage-language education can have a positive impact on personal and social identity, support heritage-language development, facilitate second-language acquisition, and perhaps buffer the negative impact of discrimination on self-esteem and well-being by supporting the development of strong ingroup identification. |
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