Multilingualism and English language usage in ‘weird’ and ‘funny’ times: a case study of transnational youth in Vancouver  

Oleh:

Lee, Ena ; Marshall, Steve

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Multilingualism (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 1 (2012), page 65-82.
Topik: multilingualism; transnationalism; academic literacy; hybridity; new ethnicities; perception of correctness; language mixing; plurilingualism; language status; language learning
Fulltext: 09_01_Ena Lee.pdf (279.3KB)

Isi artikel

Traditional definitions of multilingualism have reified and divided individuals’ many languages and literacies into separate compartmentalised worlds of existence
worlds that are oftentimes theorised in the literature as fraught with struggle. In this article, we illustrate how multilingual struggle is not always the case by presenting data (interview and writing sample excerpts) from a study of the multilingualism and literacy practices of undergraduate students enrolled in an academic literacy course (ALC) at Pacific Coast University (PCU), located in Vancouver, Canada. The narratives of our transnational, translinguistic participants recount a more seamless multilingual life where rich repertoires of language practices and literacies lead seemingly
at first glance
‘normal’ coexistences. We analyse our participants’ stories in terms of monolingualism as a social construct, negotiations of hybrid identities and ‘new ethnicities’, multilayered language use in a rapidly globalising world, and diversely ‘performed’ multilingualism in
and constituted through
the discursive spaces of students’ lives.

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