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Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism

Martina Oldani
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Naomi Truan

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Standard language ideologies, as a construct characterizing presumably unmarked and stable ways of speaking or writing, pervade all aspects of social life, and schools make no exception. The classroom realities in Berlin, our field of investigation, remain fixed on idealized notions of (White) monolingual standard German. On the basis of eight interviews with multilingual women aged 16–23 who speak German and Turkish, we show how young women who are constructed as having a ‘migration background’ partially align with, but also challenge, teachers’ expectations regarding their use of German. Specifically, we show that because of their perceived ethnicity, the interviewees are viewed as ‘having an accent’ or ‘using non-standard German’ across contexts. Based on these findings, we argue for a renewed focus on addressivity. Following Flores and Rosa (2015), we propose that in order to value heteroglossic repertoires, a shift from the speakers to the addressees needs to take place.
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halshs-03692924 , version 1 (10-06-2022)

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Martina Oldani, Naomi Truan. Navigating the German school system when being perceived as a student ‘with migration background’: Students’ perspectives on linguistic racism. Linguistics and Education, 2022, 71, pp.1-15. ⟨10.1016/j.linged.2022.101049⟩. ⟨halshs-03692924⟩
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