High School teachers' Experiences in classroom Ecology of Language Teaching: A Study from the Phenomenological Perspective

The present study aims to look into ecological classroom practices adopted by teachers while teaching English language courses at colleges in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study specifically explains how three high school English teachers in the class felt about ecology of language teaching, how they experienced teaching, and how they provided meaning to it. Three high school English teachers’ experiences were recalled through an in-depth phenomenological interview. The results revealed that the need of classroom ecology was not emphasized. The teachers' experiences in the form of narratives, collected, transcribed, coded, thematic analyses and presented in the notion of emerging themes that English language teaching helped to explore the effective classroom ecological practices in detail. The study is expected to contribute in making EFL teaching successful in linguistic landscapes of Nepal.

PERGESERAN DAN PEMERTAHANAN BAHASA JAWA DI DAERAH TRANSMIGRASI DI KOTA PALANGKARAYA

Abstrak Banyak bahasa daerah yang berinteraksi dengan bahasa lain akhirnya mengalami pergeseran, termasuk bahasa Jawa. Pergeseran ini kemudian menimbulkan upaya pemertahanan bahasa. Penelitian ini membahas pergeseran dan pemertahanan bahasa Jawa di daerah transmigrasi di km 38 Kota Palangkaraya. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah menggambarkan keadaan kebahasaan dan mendeskripsikan upaya pemertahanan bahasa Jawa yang dilakukan oleh para responden yang menghuni kawasan transmigrasi di km 38 Kota Palangkaraya. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dan kualitatif. Data diambil dengan cara membagikan kuesioner untuk selanjutnya ditanggapi oleh para responden. Responden yang menjadi penanggap kuesioner ini mencapai 78 orang. Data kemudian dianalisis dengan bantuan perangkat lunak statistik. Berdasarkan analisis disimpulkan bahwa ranah memengaruhi pilihan bahasa. Terdapat pula perbedaan rata-rata pilihan bahasa pada ranah dan variabel tertentu. Pilihan bahasa kemudian memunculkan pergeseran bahasa yang kian memprihatinkan. Upaya pemertahanan yang dilakukan oleh para penutur yang tinggal di daerah itu bersifat manasuka dan sukarela, tidak terstruktur, dan tidak formal. Akibatnya regenerasi penutur bahasa Jawa tidak berjalan dengan baik dan tidak berkesinambungan. Kata kunci: pergeseran dan pemertahanan bahasa, sikap dan pilihan bahasa, ekologi bahasa, sosiolinguistik Abstract Many native languages in Indonesia who interact with other codes shift, including Javanese. This shifting lead to massive language maintenance. This interaction leads to language shifting and the shift of language leads to language maintenance. This research is focused on the Javanese shifting and maintenance in transmigration region in Palangkaraya. The goal of the research is to describe the shifting and maintenance of Javanese in the region. This is a descriptive and qualitative research. The data is collected by distributing questionners to some respondents and then to be responded respectively. There are 78 respondents involved in the research. The data is then analyzed by using statistics software. Based on the analysis, domain plays some important roles in the context of language choices. It is also found that there is some average difference in how the respondent’s choice a code in certain contexts. These choices lead to the condition of language shift. How the respondents maintain their language is such kind of unstructural and unformal efforts. Therefore, the language speaker’s regeneration is neither well performed nor sustainably constructed.Keywords: language shift and maintenance, language attitude and preference, ecology of language, sociolinguistics

Why is English Green? The Preference for English on Environmental Discourse at a Thai University

This paper reports on an analysis of environmental discourse, or green discourse, in the linguistic and geosemiotic landscape of a Thai university. The overwhelming majority of green discourse signs at the university are in English and where they are bilingual (Thai and English), they tend to contain English in the preferred position. The language usage on the signage is also shown to be related to the sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010) in terms of scale, indexical order, and polycentricity. These data are triangulated with data collected from walking interviews with students. The literature on ecolinguistics, the ecology of language and green discourse are reviewed within the context of the present study. The analysis focuses upon the geosemiotics (Scollon and Scollon 2003) of green discourse and how such discourse reflects patterns of the sociolinguistics of globalization.

Linguoecological Aspect of Studying the Toponimic Lexis of the Baikal Region

The article is an attempt to examine data from toponymic studies of the Baikal region from the linguoecological point of view. Geographical names of the region are of considerable interest in various aspects of linguistic knowledge, but have not yet been considered in the linguoecological context. This determines the relevance of the study. To demonstrate the main ways of developing regional toponymy in the linguoecological aspect, we bring a classification of the corresponding approaches. This classification includes interpretation of four research lines: the symbolic ecology of language, the natural ecology of language, the sociocultural ecology of language and the cognitive ecology of language [1]. Having presented this classification, we trace the ideas of ecolinguistics on aforecited lines in the data of regional toponymic material research. Identified within the framework of the article the thesis of the systemic toponymy, the idea of the coexistence of languages within a certain geographical area, explicated toponymic appellatives of the appropriate lexis, require a comprehension in the linguoecological aspect. The main conclusion of the article is that regional toponyms are ecologically significant linguistic objects. The article can be of wide interest while investigating issues of journalistic practice in the context of the modern media environment formation.

Study on China’s Languages’ Status Planning for “The Belt and Road Initiative”: Proposing the Ecology-of-language Paradigm

Focusing on China’s languages’ status planning for “The Belt and Road Initiative”, this paper constructs a framework for China’s languages’ status planning goals and studies its application of Chinese and minority languages in the social context of “The Belt and Road Initiative” raised by China in 2013. The paper points out the focuses of Chinese and minority languages’ status planning in the form of both status policy planning and status cultivation planning and makes a detailed analysis from the ecology of languages paradigm. It is concluded that China’s languages’ status planning for “The Belt and Road Initiative” should focus on the international language spread of Chinese as second language, the inheritance of Chinese as heritage language, and language maintenance and language revival of the minorities, by providing different platforms for the languages to function complementarily at different levels. The paper also looks forward the application of ecology-of-language paradigm in China’s language planning would trend a sustainable road for language ecological crisis and human sustainable development in the construction of the Belt and Road for building a community with a shared future for mankind.

KATA-KATA PINJAMAN DALAM ISTILAH SEPAKBOLA (SEBUAH KAJIAN MORFOLOGI)

Different language has its own difference in writing or pronunciation Sometimes, an activity may have not the actual word to express it. When one language has no word to express, the word from other’s language is used. The word itself is known as loanword. This case mostly appears in the football area. This article entitled ‘Loan Words in Football Terminology’ explains about the loan word which is usually used in the football terminology. The writer used the dictionary about football terminology “Kamus Istilah Sepakbola” by Nugraha Edy in order to find the data to be analyzed. The writer also uses the theory of Haugen “The ecology of Language” which will describe how the loan word formed. Before analyzing the data, the writer looked for the terminology in the data source and then analyzes it using the theory stated. At the end of analysis, the writer finds that many of football terminology in English has not be converted to Indonesian, so Indonesian has to loan English terminology to express it.