Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency: Adoptive Family Talk

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,...

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Beteilige Person: Wright, Lyn (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Blue Ridge Summit, PA Multilingual Matters [2012]
Schriftenreihe:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Links:https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697868
Zusammenfassung: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 "idian negotiations of adoptive family life and suggestions for supporting adoptees as young bilinguals
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
Umfang:1 online resource
ISBN:9781847697868
DOI:10.21832/9781847697868