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Authors: Robert Bayley, Sandra Schecter
ISBN-13: 9781853596360, ISBN-10: 1853596361
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Robert Bayley

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Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface and Aknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Dynamic Model of Language Socialization1
1Transforming Perspective on Bilingual Language Socialization9
2Weaving Languages Together: Family Language Policy and Gender Socialization in Bilingual Aymara Households25
3Collaborative Literacy in a Mexican Immigrant Household: The Role of Sibling Mediators in the Socialization of Pre-School Learners44
4Growing up Trilingual in Montreal: Perceptions of College Students62
5Representational Practices and Mutli-modal Communication in US High Schools: Implications for Adolescent Immigrants83
6Engaging in an Authentic Science Project: Approprating, Resisting, and Denying "Scientific" Identities98
7Interrupted by Silences: The Contemporary Education of Hong Kong-born Chinese Canadians114
8Novices and Their Speech Roles in Chinese Heritage Language Classes128
9Language Socialization and Dys-socliazation in a South Indian College147
10Language Socialization and Second Language Acquisition in a Multilingual Arctic Quebec Community165
11Growing a Banyaetrag (Rock Crystals on Barren Soil). Forming a Hungarian Identity in Eastern Slovakia through Joint (Inter)action182
12Multiliteracies in Springvale. Negotiating Language, Culture and Identity in Suburban Melbourne200
13Terms of Desire. Are there Lesbians in Egypt?218
14Language Dynamics in the Bi- and Multilingual Workplace235
15Back to School: Learning Practices in a Job Retraining Community251
16Bilingualism and Standardization in a Canadian Call Center: Challenges for a Linguistic Minority Community269
References286
Index306

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