Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency : : Adoptive Family Talk / / Lyn Wright Fogle.

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. By focusing on a different practice in each family (i.e. narrative talk about the day, metalinguistic discourse or languaging,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Transcription Conventions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Second Language Socialization, Agency and Identity
  • 3. Transnational Adoption and Language: An Overview
  • 4. ‘I Got Nothin’!’: Resistance, Routine and Narrative
  • 5. ‘But Now We’re Your Daughter and Son!’: Participation, Questions and Languaging
  • 6. ‘We’ll Help Them in Russian, and They’ll Help Us in English’: Negotiation, Medium Requests and Code-Switching
  • 7. Conclusions and Implications
  • 8. Epilogue
  • References
  • Index