On Becoming Bilingual - Childrens Experiences Across Homes, Schools, and Communities

On Becoming Bilingual: Children's Experiences across Homes, Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological introduction to research on children's participation in and across a multiplicity of activities where they display complex linguistic and sociocultural knowledge.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Copyright Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Social Worlds of Bilingual Children
2. A Critical Approach to Language Learning in Social Context
3. Becoming A Bilingual Speaker of Culture
4. Bilingualism in Schools
5. Children’s Participation in Social Activities
6. Becoming Speakers for Others
7. Developing a Critical Lens on Children’s Words and Worlds
Glossary
Index

About the author

Patricia Baquedano-López is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Education and affiliated faculty in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in California and in Yucatán on the linguistic and cultural development of young migrant children and the revalorization of Yucatec Maya in the Yucatan-California Maya diaspora.
Paul B. Garrett is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University. He has conducted field-based research in the Caribbean region, focusing on issues of language contact and change, and is currently participating and assisting in community-based efforts to revitalize the Lenape language.

Summary

On Becoming Bilingual: Children’s Experiences across Homes, Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological introduction to research on children’s participation in and across a multiplicity of activities where they display complex linguistic and sociocultural knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Garrett Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia Baquedano-López, Paul B. Garrett, Garrett Paul B.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2022
• EAN: 9781138780743
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78074-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Foundations in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology