'Language of the Enemy': Foreign Language Education and National Identity  

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Pavlenko, Aneta

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 5 (2003), page 313 — 331.
Topik: foreign language education; national identity; German; English; Russian
Fulltext: Vol. 6, No. 5, 313 — 331.pdf (224.37KB)

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The focus of the present paper is on the relationship between national identities and foreign-language education policies and practices.The paper examines this relationship through a juxtaposition of three sociohistoric contexts in which sociopolitical events led to major changes in foreign-language education: post-World War I United States, post-World WarIISovietUnion, and post-communist EasternEurope.Onthe exampleof these case studies, it is argued that shifts in national identity images and sociopolitical allegiances have implications for foreign-language policies and practices. It is also argued that foreign-language learnersmay choose to construct oppositional identities in language classrooms: some, for patriotic reasons, may reject the languages imposed on them,while othersmay instead reject the dominant national identity and create an alternative one through the means of a foreign language.

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