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Managing the change of prescriptivism in Hungary: adopting the models of change management to L1 education

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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.


Corresponding author: Andrea Parapatics, Institute of Hungarian and Applied Linguistics, 61811 University of Pannonia , 1 Wartha Street, 8200, Veszprem, Hungary, E-mail:

Award Identifier / Grant number: Bolyai János Research Grant

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.

  1. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: The author states no conflict of interest.

  4. 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.

  5. Ethical approval: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.

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Received: 2022-11-08
Accepted: 2023-11-16
Published Online: 2023-12-12
Published in Print: 2024-12-17

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