ERIC Number: EJ1250768
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Publication Date: 2020
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Unpacking the Oral Translanguaging Practices of Korean-American First Graders
Lee, Chaehyun; García, Georgia Earnest
Bilingual Research Journal, v43 n1 p32-49 2020
This qualitative study utilized sociocultural and heteroglossic perspectives to examine the oral translanguaging practices of four Korean-American first-graders in a Korean heritage language (HL) classroom. The research method was discourse analysis. The students attended all-English American schools during the school week and a Korean HL school on Saturdays. All four students drew from their integrated linguistic resources to translanguage for sociolinguistic, metalinguistic, metacognitive, and sociocultural purposes. The three students who preferred English and who had older siblings translanguaged more and for a wider range of translanguaging practices than the student who preferred Korean and who had a younger sibling.
Descriptors: Korean, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Oral Language, Korean Americans, Grade 1, Heritage Education, Discourse Analysis, Community Schools, Native Language Instruction, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Preferences, Metalinguistics, Metacognition, Siblings, Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education
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Language: English
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