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Transborder Testimonios Of Language Learning And Socialization, Maria Teresa Guevara Beltrán
Transborder Testimonios Of Language Learning And Socialization, Maria Teresa Guevara Beltrán
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
This qualitative study utilizes a Chicana/Latina feminist lens and the Latin American tradition of Testimonio to explore Spanish-speaking immigrants’ experiences of migration, language learning and socialization, paying close attention to the ways in which the multilayered intersections of identity, race, class, gender, nationality, language, citizenship and power shape these experiences. In the context of a grassroots English as a Second Language class, testimonios are elicited through multimodal data collection methods, including visual, oral and written forms. Critical perspectives of second language learning and second language socialization research in bilingual contexts provide a multidisciplinary framework for this study, bridging conceptual parallels …
Words Flying On The Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children In A Chinese Bilingual School, Valerie Sartor
Words Flying On The Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children In A Chinese Bilingual School, Valerie Sartor
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
This study focused on the language socialization experiences non-mainstream Indigenous Buriat youth from the Republic of Buriatia, Russian Federation, encountered as they attended a bilingual school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. They migrated in order to start language studies which would eventually allow them to study alternative Mongolian medicine in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Both the Russian Federation and the Republic of China are countries in transition. The Russian educational and economic systems have made dramatic changes after the fall of the Soviet Union in December 1991; currently, the economy and educational opportunities are in decline and there is a widening …