As part of my dissertation project, I'm aiming to collect a large research sample to help construct a validated measure on Teacher Attitudes towards Multilingualism.
If you are a teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary education), and you teach multilingual students, could I please ask for 10 minutes of your time?
@jaap@edutooters@academicchatter my wife, who is target demographic, stopped mid survey, puzzled at the one dimensionality expected of the answers to what are pretty complex questions (I am as puzzled)... Can't have absolute answers for things that are so context dependent, and I don't see what kind of knowledge can be extracted from such mutilated data.
@brohee@jaap@edutooters@academicchatter I also struggled with context. When a second language is not shared by 50% of students, you have very real potential for nasty incidents, where things are said in front of a student who doesn't understand, and everyone else laughs.
But the need for a 2nd language group to feel support and be able to express their questions and issues freely is equally important.
This is all massively nuanced. South Africa has 11 official languages. This is our reality.
@jaap@edutooters@academicchatter
I'm not a teacher so I won't mess up your survey with invalid data, but I've boosted your request.
Why? As a Brit who's lived abroad for 35 years I've seen so often how an inability to understand other languages can lead to an inabilty to fully understand the cultures behind them, diminishing both social and business postive outcomes.
Sorry about the long-windedness.
@edutooters@academicchatter@jaap Hello Jaap. Good topic, great area for research, might I suggest sharing this questionnaire on platforms frequented by teachers in the global south?
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