Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs A framework for exploring bilingual identity /

• Main Author: Fielding, Ruth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Child development.; Literacy.; Language Education.; Childhood Education.

This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence b...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Bilingual Identity - being and becoming bilingual
• Chapter 3 Context, data collection and analysis
• Chapter 4 Children's Language Use
• Chapter 5 Attitudes to Language
• Chapter 6 Attitudes to bilingualism
• Chapter 7 The Bilingual School Program's contribution to bilingual identity development
• Chapter 8 Conclusions and Implications for education bilingual children in today's world.