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Lyn Wright Fogle

Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency - Adoptive Family Talk

English · Hardback

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Description

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift.

About the author

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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Product details

Authors	Lyn Wright Fogle
Publisher	Channel View Publications Ltd

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	02.08.2012

EAN	9781847697851
ISBN	978-1-84769-785-1
No. of pages	216
Dimensions	210 mm x 156 mm x 17 mm
Weight	412 g
Series	Bilingual Education & Bilingualism Bilingual Education and Biling Bilingual Education & Bilingua Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics Zweisprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit

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