Abstract
The paper studies the possible role of change management, a well-known term and often used action in the public administration and corporate sector, in supporting the institutional shaping of positive language attitudes towards regional dialects. The theoretical study is based on the presupposition that the application of the sociolinguistic viewpoint in L1 education in Hungary can be understood as a process of change in organizational and corporate culture. The study aims to point out how the lessons of change management can help move the standard-based viewpoint and subtractive practice in mother tongue education more effectively towards a sociolinguistic and additive approach. Besides these viewpoints, the existing regulations and teaching practices regarding language variability in present-day Hungary are also summarized in the paper briefly. The second part presents the change management theory and its two famous models, and discusses what can be learned from them concerning the field of (educational) linguistics.
Funding source: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
Award Identifier / Grant number: Bolyai János Research Grant
Funding source: Innovációs és Technológiai Minisztérium
Award Identifier / Grant number: ÚNKP-22-5 National Excellence Program
Acknowledgments
The author gratefully acknowledges the reviewers for their insightful remarks the editorial board of the journal for their exemplary helpfulness during the publication process.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: The author states no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: The current study is supported by the Bolyai János Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the ÚNKP-22-5 National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund.
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Ethical approval: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.
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- Frontmatter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A raciolinguistic analysis of the impact of the English Language Proficiency Act on students labeled long-term English learners in Colorado
- Towards equitable multilingualism: promoting transdisciplinary, collaborative dialogue between English as a lingua franca and translingualism
- Hypothetical mistakes: hedging wrong answers with conditional language in initiation-response-evaluation (IRE) sequences in an American high school classroom
- Managing the change of prescriptivism in Hungary: adopting the models of change management to L1 education
- Universalizing the particulars: neoliberalizing English language teaching (ELT) through outcome-based education (OBE)
- Perspective
- Language assessment in EMI: unravelling the implicit-explicit dichotomy
- Commentary
- Reimagining educational linguistics: a post-competence perspective
- Book Review
- Anna Krulatz, Georgios Neokleous, and Anne Dahl: Theoretical and applied perspectives on teaching foreign languages in multilingual settings: pedagogical Implications