Child Agency in Family Language Policy : : Growing up Multilingual and Multiliterate / / Ying Zhan.

Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children’s verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents’ perspective. This book describes a child’s mostly self-directed and near-simultaneous multilingual and multiliterate development from birth to age 8. The present fi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 122
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 209 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures and charts
  • List of symbols
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Family language policy
  • 3 Child agency in family language policy
  • 4 An ethnographic case study
  • 5 A journey from being socialized to being the main socializing agent in family language policy
  • 6 From parent facilitators to child manager
  • 7 Metalinguistic, cultural awareness, and evolving identity
  • 8 Creativity and literacy-driven language socialization
  • 9 The contribution of this research
  • Appendix 1: Videos taken between 2;0 and 5;10
  • Appendix 2: Transcription conventions in the example of two coded transcripts
  • References
  • Index