Examining bilingual and bicultural identity in young students

Fielding, Ruth; Harbon, Lesliey

doi:10.1111/flan.12051

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“…We argue that the specific intercultural competence of a TCN should not be mistaken with multilinguistic competence. An empirical qualitative study by Fielding and Harbon (2013) on students’ bilingual and bicultural identity development reveals that first, feeling bilingual and feeling bicultural are quite distinct notions, and that second, students found it more challenging to identify as bilingual than as bicultural. Bicultural identity turned out to be something that could be experienced even without a permanent vivid connection with the respective culture, whereas bilingual identity was overlaid by high expectations of language proficiency and subject to the comparison with the language skills of more developed peers.…”

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Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations

Barmeyer

Stein

Eberhardt³

2020

MBR

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the central roles, functions and competences of third-country nationals (TCNs) in intercultural boundary spanning in multinational corporations (MNCs): Why are TCNs particularly important for reducing complexity at the overlapping functional, geographic and external boundaries of MNCs with their related interferences and which role do they play as boundary spanners in cross-boundary collaboration? Design/methodology/approach After introducing the theoretical background on boundary spanning and TCNs, the methodology applied in this paper is a theory-driven, qualitative approach based on 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with TNCs conducted in 10 MNCs. Findings The authors aggregate TCNs’ activities into four roles: disembedded cosmopolitan, intermediary, third party and team-related boundary spanner. They show that TCNs tend to understand the complex intercultural context between headquarters and subsidiaries, balance power asymmetries, use their in-between neutrality to create trust, and act in an interculturally highly competent way by using a great variety of intercultural and linguistic skills. The TCNs’ meta-competence permits a higher level, intellectual and abstract perspective, enabling TCNs to consider structures, objects and interactions from an affective distance. Research limitations/implications The differences between TCNs and “regular” expatriates or other interface managers are examined and methodological limitations as well as research implications are critically discussed. MNCs can intentionally assign TCNs with their related competence profiles when expecting boundary-spanning tasks. Originality/value This paper is one of the few published that undergirds the TCN concept with empirical data and illustrates the suitability of specific role-takers such as TCNs for some complex challenges in international and intercultural management settings.

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Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations

Barmeyer

Stein

Eberhardt³

2020

MBR

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“…Therefore, it is inevitable to mention the advantages of being able to speak two languages. This is how the majority of our participants thought, just like the participants of Fielding & Harbon (2013). In their qualitative design, their participants also mentioned being lucky because they can communicate with other people, it was one of the most frequent codes that we came across.…”

Section: Bilingual Perception Of Bilingualism and Languagesmentioning

confidence: 76%

Perceptions and Linguistic Actions of Bilingual Speakers of Turkish and English: An Explanatory Study

Gürsoy

Ozcan

2018

ALLS

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Due to the globalized world, sixty percent of world’s population is bilingual today. Such a population calls for the need to understand bilinguals from a holistic perspective since it is likely that we are surrounded by bilinguals and we are raising bilingual children. Therefore, this study investigates bilingualism from five different dimensions; their perception of bilingualism and languages as Turkish and English, prosodic features in these two languages, sense of self, biculturalism and their language choice to get an overview about bilingual speakers of Turkish and English by adopting a qualitative design. Moreover, this study is one of the few studies involving bilinguals of Turkish and English. The data was collected from 29 bilinguals through an open-ended questionnaire. In data analysis, participants were divided into two main groups as early and late bilinguals; the origins of the bilinguals were also taken into account. Bilinguals’ responses were examined by using inductive data analysis. The results show that bilingual speakers have a unique profile and they make their decisions depending on the context, culture, self-perception and sense of self. Each bilingual is found to be idiosyncratic with linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour he/she displays.

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“…As a first step in the project, to examine the students' perceptions of their multilingual and multicultural identities, and to determine to what degree and in what contexts they employ the various languages in their linguistic repertories, the Language Use Questionnaire, adapted from Fielding and Harbon (2013), was used. The original questionnaire was translated into Norwegian, and some items were modified to better match the context of the project.…”

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Building Inclusive Language Classroom Spaces through Multilingual Writing Practices for Newly-Arrived Students in Norway

Krulatz

Iversen

2019

Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

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Examining bilingual and bicultural identity in young students

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations

Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations

Perceptions and Linguistic Actions of Bilingual Speakers of Turkish and English: An Explanatory Study

Building Inclusive Language Classroom Spaces through Multilingual Writing Practices for Newly-Arrived Students in Norway

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