Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency

Adoptive Family Talk

AvLyn Wright Fogle

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. By focusing on a different practice in each family (i.e. narrative talk about the day, metalinguistic discourse or languaging, and code-switching), the analyses uncover different types of learner agency and show how language socialization is collaborative and co-constructed. The learners in this study achieve agency through resistance, participation, and negotiation, and the findings demonstrate the complex ways in which novices transform communities in transnational contexts. The perspectives inform the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift. The book further provides a rare glimpse of the quotidian negotiations of adoptive family life and suggestions for supporting adoptees as young bilinguals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt:305 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781847697844

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Mer om författaren

Lyn Wright Fogle is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics/TESOL at Mississippi State University. She holds a PhD In Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MA in TESOL from American University. Her research focuses on sociocultural aspects of second language learning and bilingualism with an emphasis on second language socialization, learner identities, and language policy. She is a co-editor of the volume Sustaining linguistic diversity: Endangered and minority languages and language varieties (Georgetown University Press), and her work has appeared in journals such as The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Language and Linguistics Compass.

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The book offers an innovative way of understanding and researching language socialization, and it is definitely worth attention as it does not put parents in the dominant position but highlights the role of youngsters in becoming members of a new community.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Second Language Socialization, Agency, and Identity Chapter 3: Transnational Adoption and Language: An Overview Chapter 4: ‘I got nothin’!’: Resistance, Routine, and Narrative Chapter 5: ‘But now we’re your daughter and son!’: Participation, Questions, and Languaging Chapter 6: ‘We’ll help them in Russian, and they’ll help us in English’: Negotiation, Medium Requests, and Code-switching Chapter 7: Conclusions and Implications Chapter 8: Epilogue