Nyelvoktatás, ideológiák és nyelvtanítási hiedelmek - székelyföldi magyar iskolák nyelvi tájképelemzése
Language Teaching, Ideologies and Beliefs Related to It – Analysis of the Linguistic Schoolscapes of Hungarian Schools in the Szekler Region

Author(s): Enikő Biró
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: language teaching;language ideologies; language learning beliefs
Summary/Abstract: Learning languages in schools receives a great amount of criticism. This is especially true regarding learning Romanian, the state language, by the Hungarian minority in Romania. In a minority setting, there are many factors involved in the process of successful language learning, namely the curricula, language ideologies, and language learning beliefs. The present research investigates the relationships between language teaching, language teaching ideologies, and teachers’ beliefs within the linguistic landscape of Hungarian medium and Romanian-Hungarian mixed medium schools in three towns in the central part of Romania, Covasna County, collecting qualitative data through interviews with language teachers and photo taking. In this study, the examination of schoolscape element varieties and of their reflection of language ideologies through the different examples of teaching languages has been the main aim. Schoolscapes outline a multilingual environment (Hungarian–Romanian–English) which has been building up lately. One important outcome of this study is the demonstration of different language ideologies and language policies present in schoolscapes. The study also presents the role of these schoolscapes in the successful process of learning languages.

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