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Rampton, M. B. H. – Applied Linguistics, 1991
Discusses the ethnographic investigation of a multilingual adolescent peer group in which various forms of second/other-language learner status had considerable social significance. The study illustrates the ways a repertoire of languages and language learner statuses serve as differentiated resources adolescents draw on to define community and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnography, Multilingualism, Panjabi