Impact Of Education Language On Self-Esteem And Socioeconomic Aspiration

Abstract

This current master’s thesis investigates how instruction language affects self-esteem and socio-economic aspirations of students within the multilingual education system of Azerbaijan. The study investigates psychological development of adolescents based on the symbolic and socioeconomic value of Azerbaijani, Russian, and English in an educational system that operates within Soviet linguistic frameworks and modern globalization processes. The last existent multilingualism research trajectories are rather focused on the neurocognitive, academic performance, and socioeconomic outcomes, while psychological factor is predominately understudied. However, well-developed theoretical component of socioeconomical significance of language-factor (Bourdieu, 1991), as well as its influence on self-concept (e.g Creese & Blackledge, 2015; Hamman-Ortiz & Palmer, 2020; Khattab, 2015), supported by modern local Azerbaijani observations (e.g., Akyıldız, 2019; Abdurahmanova, 2023; Bogdanova, 2022), and valuable methodological notions (e.g., Hambleton & Zenisky ,2010; Chevalier & Buckles, 2019; Blommaert, 2015), provided a fertile basis for psychological holistic conceptualization within the current study.