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ERIC Number: EJ1223523
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1367-0050
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Reported Parent-Teacher Dialogues on Child Language Learning: Voicing Agency in Interview Narratives
Bubikova-Moan, Jarmila
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, v22 n6 p768-786 2019
This study investigates parent-teacher dialogues on child language learning as constructed in 19 interviews with migrant parents of Polish ethnolinguistic background, resettled in Norway and caring for young preschoolers and school-goers. Targeting reported speech as a linguistic resource for enacting agency in discourse, the focal interest is in tracing how the interviewed parents draw on this resource to enact and negotiate their agency vis-à-vis their children's educators. The analysis reveals that the parents use reported speech as a strategic discursive tool to variably claim their agency across time and space. While L2 emerges as the most prominent theme of the dialogues, the participants also display a sense of ownership of the meaning-making processes involved in their children's L1 development. Through constructions of concerted bilingual home-pre/school support, the parents thus propel their capacity to imagine their children's membership in the host and home language communities to the fore.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway (Oslo)
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