Description:This book provides scholarly insight to how foreign language acquisition has influenced an individual s understanding of identity within the African American family. Scholarship is rooted in sociolinguistic, communication, and bilingual theoretical perspectives. This text that describes how foreign language acquisition, development and use help to shape how Africans and African Americans are able to describe and proscribe their identity and in turn, the identity of the family. It looks specifically at how family language choices, in particular choosing to be bilingual, affects family communication and perception of identity from people outside of the family. There are two objectives of this book: first, to share the research of being bilingual, as an individual and as a part of a family unit, and in the margins within multiple cultures. Second, it seeks to challenge the existing notions of what it means to be Black when your experiences with race and ethnicity extend beyond the boundaries of your native country/culture."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society. To get started finding Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society
Description: This book provides scholarly insight to how foreign language acquisition has influenced an individual s understanding of identity within the African American family. Scholarship is rooted in sociolinguistic, communication, and bilingual theoretical perspectives. This text that describes how foreign language acquisition, development and use help to shape how Africans and African Americans are able to describe and proscribe their identity and in turn, the identity of the family. It looks specifically at how family language choices, in particular choosing to be bilingual, affects family communication and perception of identity from people outside of the family. There are two objectives of this book: first, to share the research of being bilingual, as an individual and as a part of a family unit, and in the margins within multiple cultures. Second, it seeks to challenge the existing notions of what it means to be Black when your experiences with race and ethnicity extend beyond the boundaries of your native country/culture."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society. To get started finding Language, Identity, and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.