Constructing The Heritage Language Learner
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Author | : Neriko Doerr |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614512833 |
Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested by researchers, school administrators and the students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2007-2011 at a weekend Japanese language school in the United States, this monograph investigates the construction of the heritage language learner at the intersections of the knowledge-power complex, ideologies of language and national belonging, and politics of schooling. It examines the ways individuals become, resist and negotiate their new subjectivity as heritage language learners through becoming objects of study, being caught in nationalist aspirations and school politics regarding what to teach to whom, and negotiating with peers with various linguistic proficiency and family backgrounds. The volume proposes a new approach to view the notion of heritage language learner as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging, while offering practical suggestions for schools.
Author | : Sara M. Beaudrie |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1589019393 |
There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central role of education within the field. Contributors offer a wealth of resources for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship.
Author | : Zhen Li |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351809822 |
Identity of Chinese Heritage Language Learners in a Global Era enriches the current research on heritage language (HL) learner identity by examining how identity is constructed, negotiated, and performed in the narratives of university Chinese HL (CHL) learners in Hong Kong. This monograph has identified three sub-categories of CHL learners: domestic-born Chinese, ‘third culture’ Chinese, and overseas Chinese sojourners. Through systematically examining these CHL learners’ life-history narratives about language learning, language use, and social experiences from early childhood to university time, this monograph shows how CHL learner identity is dynamically constructed and changed through self and social positioning across a wide range of spatio-temporal contexts. It also adopts investment, agency, and imagined communities to examine the shared discourses which reflect the relationship between identity and the larger social processes that involve transnational or postcolonial encounters. This monograph contributes to reflections on the emerging discourses of HL learner identity in the context of multilingualism and transnational migration. It challenges the stigmatised image of CHL learners as ‘diasporic subjects’ or ‘language minority students’ in the literature and conceptualises CHL learners as transformative linguistic and social actors in processes of transnational migration and institutional change. This monograph is targeted toward educators, researchers, and professionals working in the fields of heritage language, overseas Chinese studies, migrant studies, and intercultural studies.
Author | : Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1312004312 |
This volume contains: Multilingual transfer: L1 morphosyntax in L3 English by Abdelkader HERMAS; Instant messaging in office hours: Use of ellipsis dots at work and Hong Kong culture by Bernie Chun Nam MAK; Royal sport and social distance: Television interviews with Prince Andrew and Princess Anne by Douglas Mark PONTON; Code-mixing and its impact on language competence by Dan LU; Engagement as perception-in-action in process drama for teaching and learning Italian as a second language by Erika C. PIAZZOLI; Assessment of critical thinking skills through reading comprehension by Kassim A. SHAABAN; Book Review: Doerr, N. M., & Lee, K. (2013). Constructing the heritage language learner: Knowledge, power and new subjectivities. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter. [xiii ] 188 pp; ISBN: 978-1-61451-283-7] by Hsiang-Hua CHANG.
Author | : Guanglun Michael Mu |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783094281 |
This book explores heritage language learning, in particular Chinese Australians' learning of Chinese. The book is based on a mixed methods study which uses Bourdieu's sociological theory, and offers implications for sociologists of language and education, Chinese heritage language learners and teachers, and language an
Author | : Silvina Montrul |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107007240 |
An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.
Author | : Guanglun Michael Mu |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1783094303 |
This book explores the fascinating topic of heritage language learning, looking in particular at Chinese Australians’ learning of Chinese. The author studies the investment, challenges and benefits of heritage language learning across varied contexts including school, work, home and in the community. The book investigates how Chinese Australians navigate and negotiate their Chineseness and how resources are used to support their learning. The book is based on a mixed methods study which uses Bourdieu’s sociological theory, and offers implications for sociologists of language and education, Chinese heritage language learners and teachers, as well as language and cultural policy makers.
Author | : Kimberly Adilia Helmer |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1788927656 |
Learning and Not Learning in the Heritage Language Classroom, a critical ethnography, describes the first year of a teacher-founded charter high school and presents a case-study of compulsory Spanish heritage language instruction with two Spanish-language teachers, one English dominant and the other Spanish dominant. The study follows the same cohort of Mexican-origin students to their humanities-English class, bringing into focus what works and what does not with this group of learners. Unlike many Spanish heritage language studies, the students in this book did not choose to take part in Spanish class and thus provide unusually raw feedback on their teachers and classes. The engagement and resistance of these students suggests pedagogical directions for engaging Spanish heritage language learners. The book will be of interest to scholars, administrators, students and teachers involved in the delivery and assessment of heritage language classes.
Author | : Maria Polinsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1107047641 |
A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.
Author | : Mingyue Gu |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9783034300636 |
This longitudinal qualitative study explores the motivation and identity development of students in a comprehensive university who are learning English as a second language (L2). It is set in the contemporary People's Republic of China, where dramatic sociocultural, political and economical changes are taking place. Multiple research methods, including interviews, diary studies and recorded interactions, are employed. The author considers in her study both the impact of broader issues such as globalization and more local social development on language learners at tertiary-level in China, and the effects of discourse and community in constructing motivation. This study combines detailed linguistic analysis with sociocultural theory, together with the concept of communities of practice. In so doing, the author investigates the social, historical, linguistic and individualistic factors that combine dynamically over time to co-construct learners' motivation. A critical discourse analysis approach to exploring language learner motivation presents an enhanced understanding of the relationship between motivation and interaction, providing a line of enquiry and manifold new insights.