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Understanding Translanguaging in US Literacy Classrooms: Reframing Bi-/Multilingualism as the Norm. A Policy Research Brief
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Seltzer, Kate; de los Ríos, Cati V. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2021
This brief aims to contextualize and promote translanguaging as an approach to educating bi-/ multilingual students in US literacy classrooms. Broadly, "translanguaging" has been defined as "the deployment of a speaker's full linguistic repertoire without regard for watchful adherence to the socially and politically defined…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Metalinguistics, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
Family Interaction and Engagement with the Heritage Language: A Case Study
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De Fina, Anna – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
In this paper I closely examine spontaneous interactions between members of a tri-generation Italian American family. I argue that members show different language preferences and differing attitudes towards the family's multilingual identity but that they all demonstrate a degree of "engagement" with the heritage language. Phenomena that…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Interaction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Heritage Language Socialization Practices in Secular Yiddish Educational Contexts: The Creation of a Metalinguistic Community
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Avineri, Netta Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation develops a theoretical and empirical framework for the model of metalinguistic community, a community of positioned social actors engaged primarily in discourse about language and cultural symbols tied to language. Building upon the notions of speech community (Duranti, 1994; Gumperz, 1968; Morgan, 2004), linguistic community…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Familiarity, Jews, Socialization