Publications
Publication details [#26480]
Rampton, Ben. 2002. Ritual and foreign language practices at school. Language in Society 31 (4) : 491–525.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
Annotation
On the basis of recorded German lessons in a multi-ethnic inner-London secondary school, this article distinguishes between German taught in the lessons and 'Deutsch' in students' micro-ritual improvisations, affirming the value of ritual in connecting both and providing an analytic framework applicable to institutional language learning and historical shifts in classroom experience.