英文摘要 |
Despite the growth in Chinese language education over the past decade, little research has been conducted on language acquisition from a sociocultural perspective that focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of language. This study aims to fill the gap and investigate language ideologies constructed through a teacher's discourse in an adult Chinese as a second language classroom. This study employs an ethnographic research approach and critical discourse analysis to explore the ways in which ideologies are formed. It also draws on theories of ideologies and language socialization. This study contributes to the field of Chinese language education in two main ways: first, it reveals that the teacher's classroom discussions serve as semiotic processes of language valuation and evaluation which naturalize particular language values. Second, it identifies the conflict between language ideologies when a teacher deems a pronunciation, e.g. zhŭjué in主角, taught in the classroom as "correct" and one found in the larger social world as "incorrect," even when the textbook used by the teaching institution recognizes both pronunciations zhŭjué and zhŭjiăo in主角as correct. This paper concludes with implications of a teacher's pedagogy. |