Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies

Robert Bayley is Professor of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he specializes in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. He is co-author of Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Gallaudet UP, 2001) and Language as Cultural Practice (Erlbaum, 2002).Sandra R. Schecter is Associate Professor of Education and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, where she teaches courses in language pedagogy, communication and research methods. An ethnolinguist, she is co-author of Language as Cultural Practice (Erlbaum, 2002) and co-editor of On Becoming a Language Educator (Erlbaum, 1997).

• Contributors Preface and Acknowledgments Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter: Introduction: Toward a Dynamic Model of Language SocializationPart 1: Language Socialization at Home1 Lucinda Pease-Alvarez: Transforming Perspectives on Bilingual Language Socialization 2 Aurolyn Luykx: Weaving Languages Together: Family Language Policy and Gender Socialization in Bilingual Aymara Households3 María de la Piedra and Harriett D. Romo: Collaborative Literacy in a Mexican Immigrant Household: The Role of Sibling Mediators in the Socialization of Pre-School Learners4 Patricia Lamarre, in collaboration with Josefina Rossell Paredes: Growing up Trilingual in Montreal: Perceptions of College StudentsPart 2: Language Socialization at School5 Linda Harklau: Representational Practices and Multi-modal Communication in US High Schools: Implications for Adolescent Immigrants6 KimMarie Cole and Jane Zuengler: Engaging in an Authentic Science Project: Appropriating, Resisting, and Denying “Scientific” Identities7 Gordon Pon, Tara Goldstein and Sandra R. Schecter: Interrupted by Silences: The Contemporary Education of Hong Kongborn Chinese Canadians8 Agnes Weiyun He: Novices and Their Speech Roles in Chinese Heritage Language Classes9 Dwight Atkinson: Language Socialization and Dys-socialization in a South Indian CollegePart 3: Language Socialization in Communities & Peer Groups10 Donna Patrick: Language Socialization and Second Language Acquisition in a Multilingual Arctic Quebec Community11 Juliet Langman: Growing a Bányavirág (Rock Crystal) on Barren Soil: Forming a Hungarian Identity in Eastern Slovakia through Joint (Inter)action12 Heather Lotherington: Multiliteracies in Springvale: Negotiating Language, Culture and Identity in Suburban Melbourne13 Didi Khayatt: Terms of Desire: Are There Lesbians in Egypt?Part 4: Language Socialization in the Workplace14 Christopher McAll: Language Dynamics in the Bi- and Multilingual Workplace15 Jill Sinclair Bell: Back to School: Learning Practices in a Job Retraining Community16 Sylvie Roy: Bilingualism and Standardization in a Canadian Call Center: Challenges for a Linguistic Minority CommunityReferences Index