(Re)defining Success in Language Learning : : Positioning, Participation and Young Emergent Bilinguals at School / / Katie A. Bernstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Bernstein, Katie A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

This book follows four emergent bilingual students in an English-medium pre-kindergarten in the US and examines how students’ differing social positions in the classroom shaped their participation in interaction and, thus, their English language learning across a school year. With a unique focus on...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures, Tables and Images
• Acknowledgements
• Transcription Symbols
• Introduction
• 1 Participation in Interaction and Language Learning: A Layered Approach
• 2 Language and Language Learning as Social Practice
• 3 From Bhutan, Uzbekistan and Berkeley to River City: Arrival Stories
• 4 Adults as Context-makers: Parents’ and Teachers’ Beliefs about Language
• 5 The Social Field of Classroom Three: Policies and Practices
• 6 Becoming Students, Becoming Speakers: Positioning in the Social Field of Classroom Three
• 7 Who Learned What? Three Perspectives on Success in Language Learning
• 8 Beyond English: Multimodal, Multilingual Repertoires at Work
• 9 The Edge Has its Advantages: Participation and Learning on the Periphery
• 10 Concluding Thoughts: Success Stories
• Appendix 1: Details about Conflicts that Brought Classroom Three Families to the United States and their Experiences with Resettlement
• Appendix 2: Detailed Methodological Information
• References
• Index