A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Language Preferences of Adolescent Bilinguals: Shifting Allegiances and Developing Identities  

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Caldas, Stephen J. ; Caron-Caldas, Suzanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 23 no. 4 (Dec. 2002), page 490-514.
Fulltext: 23.4;490-514.pdf (1.34MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/23 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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study tracks the language preferences of three French/English bilingual children, twin girls aged 13:8 and a boy 15:8, over a 72 month period. Using weekly tape recorded conversations of family dinnertime conversations both in children's Louisiana home, and a summer residence in French-speaking Quebec, the bilingual authors-who are also the parents-are able to plot drastic language shifts in the home between a predominantly English speaking French speaking social context. Moreover, the authors are also able to demonstrate that as the children moved into adolescence, English speaking eases markedly in the Louisiana home, but French speaking remains uniformly high in Quebec. Ethnographic data are used to link increasing identification with peers outside the home with the children's construction of identity which, at least during adolescence, tends more toward parallel monolingualism than bilingualism. Additionally, decreased parental linguistic influence is documented within the home as adolescence progresses.

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