Ideology in Foreign Language Learning

Chad Nilep

Applied linguistics forum address at
CoTESOL Fall Conference and Exhibition
Denver, CO
October 28, 2006

The US and other countries share a belief in the "normality" of monolingualism, for the nation and for individuals. These beliefs affect not only national political debates, but individual experiences with second-language learning. Nilep discusses how learners may sabotage themselves based on unrecognized ideologies, and how we can help overcome them.

Chad Nilep is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a member of the Colorado Research in Linguistics editorial board. He can be reached at:Chad.Nilep@Colorado.edu.