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This chapter presents an overview of the theories and methods employed in language socialization research in relation to the sociocultural settings in which learning takes place. It examines their contributions to understandings about how language and culture influence the processes of learning and teaching. Using examples from a university‐high school educational partnership called School Kids Investigating...
Conversations‐for‐learning, also called conversation tables, conversation clubs, conversation lounges, or conversation rooms, are activities arranged to provide speakers of a nonprimary language with an environment for target language use outside of the classroom. In a prototypical conversation table arrangement, L2 speakers get together with one or more L1 speaker(s) in order to talk, without a set...
This chapter examines what Language Socialization (LS), as an analytical perspective, may reveal about the nature of (C)HL classroom interactions and how language socialization, as an everyday practice, shapes the ends and means of these interactions. Grounded in LS, this chapter focuses on the semiotic resources for heritage language education as well as the communicative foundations for continuity/change...
Within sociolinguistics, inequality in education has frequently been understood as a consequence of inequality in the determination of the current worth of different linguistic varieties, communicative styles or discursive practices. This paper considers this dissimilar valuation as part of a broad and complex process of distribution of the linguistic and social resources necessary for educational...
This chapter focuses on the development of multilingualism in European education. It concentrates on the teaching of minority languages, state languages, and English as school subjects and/or languages of instruction. Apart from linguistic distance, multilingual education is related to the sociolinguistic context. Multilingual education involving minority languages has some special characteristics...
This chapter provides an opportunity to deconstruct the reflexive accounts researchers provide about their bilingualism. It describes how researchers wrote vignettes to discuss their role in the research team, and their researcher identities. These vignettes became an invaluable resource in the understandings of bilingualism as a social construct. Researching multilingualism involves bringing into...
Research on language ideology concerns people's ideas about language and speech and how these ideas regiment actual language use and ultimately the structure of language itself. Such ideas are shaped by what humans are capable of being aware of in language and speech and by the nature of the larger political ideological projects to which language is typically recruited. The best‐documented language...
Ten years ago, child discourse studies had begun to focus on how using and acquiring language are part of becoming a member of a wider society and on sociolinguistic practices that were meaningful from children's own point of view. In the past 10 years as the field has broadened to examine language socialization in “linguistically and culturally heterogeneous settings,” child discourse studies encompass...
This chapter analyzes an important discursive structure that determines how scholars have tended to approach and interpret the history of American art. For most cultural circumstances studied by historians of American art there existed both spoken and written languages, and scholars, especially those trained in the United States, need to prioritize studying languages beyond English. The chapter about...
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Homogenization of knowledge
The Internet era
Towards an ethical debate
Epilog: some future challenges
References
Epilog references
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