| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 371 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in bilingualism (SiBil) ; 42
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Studies in bilingualism ; 42.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies -- Identity and multilingualism -- The translanguaging of Latino kindergarteners -- Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. Latina quinceañera ritual -- Literacy practices and language ideologies of first generation Mexican parents -- Ethnolinguistic identity: the challenge of maintaining Spanish-English bilingualism in American schools -- From parental attitudes to input conditions: Spanish-English bilingual development in Toronto -- Language and literacy socialization as resistance in Western Canada -- Yo gusto ... Expanding choice or syntactic attrition? -- Voicing language dominance: acquiring Spanish by British English/Spanish bilingual children -- Children's voices: Spanish in urban multilingual and multicultural Australia -- Reactions to the overt display of Spanish language maintenance in Australia -- Reluctant migrants: socialization patterns among Salvadorian children -- The role of community in preserving Spanish in New Zealand: a Latin American parent perspective -- Migration, ethnic identity and heritage language maintenance of Spanish-speaking youth in English-speaking societies: a reexamination. |
| Summary |
The present volume represents a variety of portraits of what happens when families attempt to raise children in Spanish while living in English-speaking societies. Aided by the foregrounding chapter by Suzanne Romaine about language and identity and the afterword by Carol Klee that ties together many issues brought up throughout the collection, the reader gains a more complete understanding of the variables that contribute to Spanish bilingualism in English-speaking societies, and by extension a more complete understanding of the dynamic nature of bilingualism in general. This volume, the firs. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bilingualism.
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Bilingualism. |
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Group identity.
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Group identity. |
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Ethnicity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Spanish language -- Social aspects.
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Spanish language -- Social aspects. |
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Spanish language. |
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Languages in contact.
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Languages in contact. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Potowski, Kim.
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Rothman, Jason.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bilingual youth. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 9789027241818 (DLC) 2010045312 (OCoLC)672300123 |
| ISBN |
9789027287281 (electronic book) |
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9027287287 (electronic book) |
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1283051486 |
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9781283051484 |
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9789027241818 |
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9027241813 |
| Standard No. |
3652884 |
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