Constructing the Heritage Language Learner: Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities

(Book #103 in the Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Series)

by Kiri Lee Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee

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Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested by researchers, school administrators and the students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2007-2011 at a weekend Japanese language school...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1614513996

ISBN13:9781614513995

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton

Length:202 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary

Related Subjects

Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts

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Constructing the Heritage Language Learner: Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities

(Book #103 in the Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Series)

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