Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 39)

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual SocietiesBy Robert Bayley, Sandra R. SchecterMultilingual MattersCopyright © 2003 Robert Bayley, Sandra R. Schecter and the authors of individual chaptersAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-85359-636-0ContentsContributors, vii, Preface and Acknowledgments, xi, Introduction: Toward a Dynamic Model of Language Socialization Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter, 1, Part 1: Language Socialization at Home, 1 Transforming Perspectives on Bilingual Language Socialization Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, 9, 2 Weaving Languages Together: Family Language Policy and Gender Socialization in Bilingual Aymara Households Aurolyn Luykx, 25, 3 Collaborative Literacy in a Mexican Immigrant Household: The Role of Sibling Mediators in the Socialization of Pre-School Learners María de la Piedra and Harriett D. Romo, 44, 4 Growing up Trilingual in Montreal: Perceptions of College Students Patricia Lamarre, in collaboration with Josefina Rossell Paredes, 62, Part 2: Language Socialization at School, 5 Representational Practices and Multi-modal Communication in US High Schools: Implications for Adolescent Immigrants Linda Harklau, 83, 6 Engaging in an Authentic Science Project: Appropriating, Resisting, and Denying "Scientific" Identities Kim Marie Cole and Jane Zuengler, 98, 7 Interrupted by Silences: The Contemporary Education of Hong Kong-born Chinese Canadians Gordon Pon, Tara Goldstein and Sandra R. Schecter, 114, 8 Novices and Their Speech Roles in Chinese Heritage Language Classes Agnes Weiyun He, 128, 9 Language Socialization and Dys-socialization in a South Indian College Dwight Atkinson, 147, Part 3: Language Socialization in Communities & Peer Groups, 10 Language Socialization and Second Language Acquisition in a Multilingual Arctic Quebec Community Donna Patrick, 165, 11 Growing a Bdnyavirdg (Rock Crystal) on Barren Soil: Forming a Hungarian Identity in Eastern Slovakia through Joint (Inter)action Juliet Langman, 182, 12 Multiliteracies in Springvale: Negotiating Language, Culture and Identity in Suburban Melbourne Heather Lotherington, 200, 13 Terms of Desire: Are There Lesbians in Egypt? Didi Khayatt, 218, Part 4: Language Socialization in the Workplace, 14 Language Dynamics in the Bi- and Multilingual Workplace Christopher McAll, 235, 15 Back to School: Learning Practices in a Job Retraining Community Jill Sinclair Bell, 251, 16 Bilingualism and Standardization in a Canadian Call Center: Challenges for a Linguistic Minority Community Sylvie Roy, 269, References, 286, Index, 306, CHAPTER 1Transforming Perspectives on Bilingual Language SocializationLUCINDA PEASE-ALVAREZRecent accounts of immigrant parents' perspectives on their bilingual children's language education and socialization have been the subject of much discussion among those engaged in debates about the role that minority languages should play in schools and classrooms in the United States. By focusing on a restricted range of topics related to parental perspectives on language and schooling, recent research and media portrayals of parents' views about bilingual education provide us with a very narrow view of the way parents conceptualize language, bilingualism, and learning (Krashen, 1999). Moreover, these accounts, which tend to portray parental perspectives on bilingualism and bilingual education as monolithic and unvarying, contribute few insights into the processes implicated in the way these perspectives develop and change. Instead they are simply described as supporting or countering one side or another in national and state debates about bilingual education.In contrast, researchers adopting a sociocultural approach to the study of language development have expanded our understanding of how the constitutive relationships among language, learning, and culture play out in the language socialization process. Building on traditions of scholarship that embed learning in the