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A Critical Perspective – Language Hegemony, Linguistic Inequality, and Cultural
Disempowerment in Educational Setting
ByKomang Satya Permadi
A Critical Perspective – Language Hegemony, Linguistic Inequality, and Cultural Disempowerment in Educational
SettingIntroduction
Bilingual Education
Academic Achieveme
nt in English
Learners’ Native
Language
English
Shift
English
InstructionLanguage that will be counted in classroom
Bilingual
Learner
Substitute English for the native language and subtract the native tongue from their
linguistic repositories
(Faltis & Hudelson, 1998)
A Critical Perspective – Language Hegemony, Linguistic Inequality, and Cultural Disempowerment in Educational
SettingIntroduction
A Critical PerspectiveLanguage Hegemony
(Shanon, 1995 in Faltis & Hudelson, 1998)
English
Dominates other
languages in the world
Language Hegemon
y
Hegemony is unequal status of language face each other. One language is believed to be superior, desirable and necessary, while the other
language(s) is/ are considered inferior, undesirable, and unnecessary
Linguistic Inequality
Gilany (2007)
Linguistic Inequality
Linguistic Items
Linguistic inequality is defined as the inequal language that the person use in their social life.
Experience
Vocabulary
AgricultureExpert
Fisherman
Different Language Terminology
A Critical Perspective
Cultural Disempowerment
Krashen (2000) in Yu & Carol
(2009)
Cultural Disempowerm
ent
In addition, the learner’s desire also affects the loss of native language
Immigrant
Language &
Culture
Fade Away
Children Refuse to Learn the
First Language
Fillmore (2000) in Yu & Carol
(2009)
Internal and External
Factors that Lead to the Loss of the
Native Language
Acceptance of Society Around the
Children
Sociopolitical Situation in
Dominant Group
A Critical Perspective
English Language is
the Dominant
Language in Bilingual School
Teacher’s Duty to
Preserve the Native or Home
Language
• Bilingual classroom consists of English Speaking Bilingual students, Spanish Speaking Bilingual students, and Bilingual students and they are organized into heterogeneous group
• Emphasize the value of both language (English and Spanish)
• Elicits comments from the children in Spanish as well as in English in discussion, encourage Spanish-speaking children to write in their native language as well as English, encourage English speakers to experiment with writing in Spanish, then the children share their writing with the class
• The children assisting each other, and challenge children to learn each other’s languageLaliberty, & Orbansky (1993) in Faltis &
Hudelson (1998)
Resisting English HegemonyA Critical Perspective
English Hegemon
y
Linguistic Inequality
Culture Disempower
ment
Bilingual School
Students and
Teachers Mostly Use
English When
Communicate
Learns and Uses English
Language Everyday
A Critical Perspective – Language Hegemony, Linguistic Inequality, and Cultural Disempowerment in Educational
Setting
Conclusion & Suggestion
• Based on the facts that can be seen in Bilingual school that language hegemony usually happens in bilingual school and later on it makes linguistic inequality as well as culture disempowerment. These facts are bad if it happens continuously.
• Then the bilingual school teacher should have some ways to preserve home language.
• One example to preserve home language is to give the students freedom to choose whether they use English language or home language but teacher also should recommend to use home language more than English language.