Raising Ambi-lingual Children
Linguistic Minority Children's Heritage Language
Learning and Identity Struggle
978-3-639-11255-9
3639112555
176
2008-12-18
68,00 €
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In this book, the author examines the issues of the
unequal power relationship between languages and the
consequent heritage language loss and identity
struggle, especially in the case of Korean
linguistic minority children (LMC) in the United
States. The author highlights that the Korean
American children's (ethnolinguistic) identity is
ruptured by the domination of host language (i.e.,
English); furthermore, their hybrid identity is
attributed to their parents’ ambition for bilingual
learning for academic success and bicultural
adaptation to both distinct societies, Korea and the
U.S. The author also discusses many concurrent
issues associated with the ambitious project for
bilingualism: i) the dominance of English in the era
of globalization, ii) the English-learning fever in
Korea; and iii) ideolization and reproduction of
social discourses in school in terms of pedagogic
discourse. The discussions of this book may help
immigrant parents and ESL (English as a Second
Language) educators to understand why immigrant
children struggle in their identity formation and
why it is important to deal with the issues of
linguistic imperialism and ecology of language.
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