Language ideologies and second language acquisition: the case of French long-term residents in Sweden

• Fanny Forsberg Lundell ^[1] ; Klara Arvidsson ^[1] ; Marie-Eve Bouchard ^[2]
  1. [1] Stockholm University

     Stockholm University

     Suecia

     
  2. [2] University of British Columbia

     University of British Columbia

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 45, Nº. 8, 2024, págs. 3434-3449
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The present study investigates the possible impact of language ideologies on second language proficiency. Based on interviews and a thematic analysis, we explored language ideologies among French long-term residents in Stockholm, Sweden. The participants had contrasting proficiency levels in the host community language: five were categorised as low-performers of Swedish and five as high-performers of Swedish, based on two linguistic measures. Overall, low-performing and high-performing language users in this sample of French long-term residents in Sweden appear to hold different ideologies related to mobility and language learning. While the low-performers tend to adhere to efficiency-related ideologies and a universalist cosmopolitan worldview, where English as a lingua franca is the most significant capital, the high-performers adhere to ideologies that are more identity-based and closer to assimilationist or nationalist views, where the participants see themselves as joining a majority culture into which they should adapt. High host language proficiency is seen as necessary capital for this. All in all, the study makes a clear case for further studies exploring language ideologies in relation to second language acquisition.