Acquisition and Variation in World Englishes : : Bridging Paradigms and Rethinking Approaches / / ed. by Thorsten Brato, Mirjam Schmalz, Sarah Buschfeld, Manuela Vida-Mannl.

This book is the first of its kind to provide an integrative look at World Englishes, (second) language acquisition, and sociolinguistics in a variety of contexts of English around the globe with a focus on the language of children and adolescents. It thus aims to bridge the paradigm gaps that have...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 69
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 382 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 The current role of children and adolescents in World Englishes research
  • Part I: Language in the family
  • 2 Language among Trinidadian-heritage children raised in diaspora
  • 3 Language use patterns and strategies for children's English language development: Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia
  • 4 Family language policies in Thailand: Multiliteracy practices and Global Englishes
  • 5 Parental language ideologies and children's language use in Singapore - raising speakers of "Standard" English?
  • Part II: Language acquisition and language learning in multilingual contexts
  • 6 Syntactic and lexical complexity in CLIL and EFL written production: Evidence for ELF as a WEs paradigm in Turkey
  • 7 Investigating child language acquisition from a joint perspective: A comparison of traditional and new L1 speakers of English
  • 8 Speech rhythm in Cameroon English: A cross-generational study
  • 9 From second to first language: Language shift in Singapore and Ireland
  • Part III: Attitudes and identity
  • 10 Children's language attitudes in a World Englishes community: A focus on St. Kitts
  • 11 Youth identity as linguistic identity: Political engagement and language acquisition and use in Hong Kong
  • 12 Varieties of English and Third Culture Kids in Hong Kong
  • 13 Variation and change in the NURSE vowel in Trinidadian English: An apparent-time analysis of adolescent and adult speakers
  • 14 How linguistically tolerant or insecure are school-aged children? A matched-guise, gamified approach for 6- to 12-year-olds in Canada
  • 15 Caught between languages and cultures: Exploring linguistic and cultural identity among Maldivian adolescents
  • Part IV: Summary and discussion
  • 16 Conclusion and envoi: Language acquisition at the intersection of sociolinguistics and World Englishes research
  • Index