Giacomo Iazzetta Iazzetta
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Policy
- Language in Education
- Language and Inequalities
- Arabic Sociolinguistics
- Multilingualism
Qualifications
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MA in Language and Civilisations of Asia and Mediterranean Africa Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) (2020)
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BA in Language, Culture and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) (2017)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Understanding the role of language policy in the construction and maintenance of inequalities in Morocco and Tunisia after the Arab Spring
Language policy plays an important role through the education sector especially in multilingual and postcolonial contexts such as Morocco and Tunisia. The discriminatory nature of language policy contributes to the construction of the socioeconomic status and social inequalities (Leibowitz 1974). This project analyzes the ways in which the socioeconomic status is shaped in and through language policy in education in the Moroccan and Tunisian contexts. The political metamorphosis that took place
Supervisor: Hannah Gibson , Tracey Costley