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. 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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lyn Wright Fogle
• Edition: Multilingual Matters
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9781847697844
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-784-4
• Pages: 214
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Poids: 284 g
• Thèmes: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures