Some Albanian Socio-Cultural Problems in the Framework of the Theory of Linguistic Deficit

Abstract

After some research and observations of the role of external linguistic factors of natural character such as: age, sex, ethnic group, after several treatments of social character factors such as, level of education and new empiric observations of socio-economic class, we have reached some conclusions about the area of linguistic prejudice, especially regarding the role of language in the learning performance of students. At the epicenter of this research is the theory of linguistic deficit. So we are supporting Bernstein’s data, enriching them with the findings of his followers and detractors, even though we are convinced that Bernstein’s works have been appropriate seeds of much discussions and subsequent achievements. (Klein 1977) For this reason, after these treatments we have opened new windows of studying which lead us on the grounds that linguistic deficit prevents not merely academic performance (or vice versa), but prevents the individual to be successful for the other socio-cultural spheres (or vice versa). This is considered by Hudson as a lack of linguistic competence: closely linguistic inequality. It is on this basis that we consider to extend our thesis in this study, having as its object the Albanian linguistic community.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n7p508