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ERIC Number: EJ1296303
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1367-0050
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At Play in a Francophone Minority School in Canada: Discourses on Languages
Brisson, Geneviève
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, v24 n5 p651-670 2021
In this paper, I explore Discourses [Gee 1996. "Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses." 2nd Edition, 1996; 3rd Edition, 2008; 5th Edition. 2015. London: Taylor & Francis] on language, and how they influenced plurilingual students' subject positioning during classroom interactions. I analyse documents published by a school board as well as transcripts from classroom interactions from a case study research in a grade-six classroom in a Francophone minority school in British Columbia, Canada. I argue that teachers appeared to have integrated, in their interactions with students, a Discourse on languages of French monolingualism and separate bi/plurilingualism. These Discourses also influenced how students interacted with each other. Some students, however, were able to work around these Discourses in order to position themselves as plurilinguals.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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