Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs: A Framework for Exploring Bilingual Identity

by Ruth Fielding

Book Overview

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 bilingual identity development - sociocultural connection, investment and interaction. The cases comprise individual stories about seven young, bilingual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812874526
• ISBN13: 9789812874528
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"