家庭社会经济地位对代际间家庭语言政策的影响研究——以英语教育为例

The Influence of Family Socioeconomic Status on Intergenerational Family Language Policies—Take English Education as an Example

在斯波斯基(Spolsky)语言管理理论,即语言实践、语言意识和语言管理三方面指导下,本文探究了父母学历与收入对代际间家庭语言政策的影响。研究采用问卷调查的方法,以英语教育为例,大学本科生为对象,收集参与者父母的学历与收入,父母的家庭语言政策实践情况以及其子女对未来家庭语言规划等信息。数据分析后发现,父母的学历和收入不仅会一定程度地影响父母对家庭语言政策的规划,家庭收入还与子女对其语言意识的继承意愿略呈正比关系。家庭社会经济地位对于家庭语言政策的制定存在代际间的影响。

Taking English education as an example, under Spolsky’s framework of language management, this essay explored how parents’ educational background and family income influence intergenerational family language policies from the three aspects of language practice, language ideology and language management. Participants who were all undergraduate students, were surveyed by questionnaires to collect the information about their parents’ educational background, family income, their parents’ practice of family language policy, and also their own planning about language policy in future family. After data analysis, we found out that parents’ educational background and family income not only affect their own planning of family language policy to some degree, but a proportional relationship was also found between family income and children’s willingness to inherit their parents’ language ideology. The influence of family socioeconomic status on family language policy can be intergenerational.