FionaN_AFeb 12, 2024
Jaap Marsman 🏳️‍🌈

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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?

The survey is available here:

https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tZfFXjn5SD2PtA

Please boost—thank you so much!

@edutooters @academicchatter

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Feb 11, 2024 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threaddth Feb 12, 2024
@jaap @edutooters @academicchatter I've filled the survey and shared it with my peers and coworkers, good luck with your dissertation project!
Show threadDr Suzanne she/herFeb 12, 2024
@jaap @edutooters @academicchatter About to fill out your survey. If interested, I've got a request for participants pinned to my profile as well. 🙂
Show thread@weblearningFeb 12, 2024
@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?
Show threadLord HeeHaw IIFeb 12, 2024
@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.
Show threadBruno RohéeFeb 12, 2024
@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.
Show threadPeter BrownFeb 12, 2024
@brohee @jaap @edutooters @academicchatter they seem pretty clear to me.
Show threadBruno RohéeFeb 12, 2024
@peterbrown @jaap @edutooters @academicchatter The question is clear. The answer is not outside of a context.
Show threadGrant_HFeb 12, 2024
@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.
Show threadJaap Marsman 🏳️‍🌈Feb 13, 2024
@grant_h Thank you for your feedback here Grant. The power dynamics inherent to multiple languages in one classroom will definitely factor into the discussion piece.
Show threadJaap Marsman 🏳️‍🌈Feb 13, 2024
@brohee Thank you for your feedback Bruno! And thank you to your wife for taking the time to engage with the survey. I’ve made note of your comments and marked them down for consideration for the discussion piece of my dissertation.
Show threadShimmin Beg (he/him)Feb 12, 2024
@jaap are you interested in answers from language schools? I do TESOL and don't want to complicate your data
Show threadmultiplexFeb 12, 2024
@jaap asking as others may have the same question: UK teachers only?
Show threadJaap Marsman 🏳️‍🌈Feb 13, 2024
@multiplex Thanks for asking! All teachers, regardless of nationality or languages used. For initial validation the questions are in English only, I’m afraid.
Show threadmultiplexFeb 13, 2024
@jaap then I shall fill out and forward.
Show threadmultiplexFeb 13, 2024
@jaap would love to see the outcome. Some questions made me reflect on aspect I had not considered.
Show threadRose 📚🎼Feb 18, 2024
@edutooters @academicchatter @jaap I’m in the US and teach in a district with many multilingual learners—does it matter where we teach?