Summary: | Using an ethnographic case study design, this study investigates language
learners' socialization into the cultural values of Uzbek language.
Informed by a language socialization theoretical framework,
the study focuses on the classroom routines and interactions that socialize
students into certain social values through mini-lectures that
are beyond the linguistic objectives of the curriculum. The research
questions addressed are: What social values are being taught implicitly
or explicitly? What cultural values are students being socialized into?
What constitutes valuable cultural knowledge as claimed by the
teacher? In the audio and video recorded observation data, a selected
excerpt of typical classroom interactions is analyzed adopting discourse
analysis methods. The findings of the study could be implemented
in teacher education programs and in designing textbooks
and curriculum for less commonly taught languages.
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