‘Then suddenly I spoke a lot of Spanish’ – Changing linguistic practices and heritage language from adolescents’ points of view

Johnsen, Ragni Vik

doi:10.1080/19313152.2020.1821320

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“…En cuanto a la LH, parto del presupuesto de que la LH es un constructo flexible y fluido que no puede imponerse "desde arriba" por los padres; todo lo contrario: entiendo la LH como un proceso de acción y agencia humanas que las personas despliegan en sus interacciones diarias. Por otro lado, investigar las dinámicas agentivas de los hijos socializados en familias multilingües -más aún en épocas de transnacionalismo y globalización como las actuales-arroja luz sobre los procesos de transmisión intergeneracional de la LH en la que los hijos desempeñan un papel fundamental (King y Lanza 2019;Nandi 2023;Johnsen 2021).…”

Section: Universität Bernunclassified

Identidades y agencias lingüísticas entre adolescentes El español como lengua de herencia en contexto escolar

Bürki

2023

Boletín de Filología

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This article sheds light on the types of individual agency displayed by bi/multilingual adolescents with Spanish as their heritage language in a complementary school founded by parents with Latin American roots in the canton of Bern (Switzerland). Based on the assumption that identities are contextual, relational and partial (Bucholz and Hall 2005), this exploratory study analyzes how pupils, using their agency, position themselves in relation to Spanish as a heritage language in class. The study shows the importance of taking contextual factors into account in the analysis of the forms of agency that can occur in the context of institutionalized heritage language learning. It also contributes to studies of language policies that include the attitudes and agencies of adolescents in order to understand the complexities of language maintenance and change processes in times of transnationalism and globalization.

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Identidades y agencias lingüísticas entre adolescentes El español como lengua de herencia en contexto escolar

Bürki

2023

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“…Moreover, cities, such as Tromsø, attract people from different areas of Norway, who move for work, study or other reasons and bring a variety of Norwegian dialects with them (Jorung 2018). Understanding the dynamics that arise in such encounters requires the study of linguistic and metalinguistic practices as they intersect with other practices and processes of social life (Pesch 2017;Hiss 2019;Johnsen 2020).…”

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Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway

2021

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Norway has always been a multilingual society; Sámi languages have been spoken in vast geographical areas since prehistoric times, the Kven and other historical minority groups settled in the country, the Norwegian language has a great variety of dialects and the long coastline has eased mobility and enabled multiple multilingual encounters lasting short or long periods of time. In recent years, migrants from all over the world have become part of Norwegian society (Bull and Lindgren 2009). The practice and evaluation of multilingualism in its broadest sense have changed over the years, and new arenas in which multilingual encounters take place have emerged. The articles in this issue of Acta Borealia highlight a handful of aspects of these developments, as seen from the point of view of contemporary Northern Norway. The articles are written by members of the Multilingual North: Diversity, Education and Revitalization (MultiNor) research group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.Although the articles in this special issue primarily concern multilingualism in contemporary settings, they are all rooted in the historical contexts of the northernmost region of Norway. Here, colonization and Norwegianization politics (from approximately 1860-1950) have immensely influenced people's multilingual lives, and the consequences are still highly present. Norwegianization promoted the use of the Norwegian language and stigmatized the use of the Sámi and Kven languages. This delegitimization had severe consequences. In many communities, there were language shifts from Sámi and Kven to Norwegian, and these languages are today considered endangered or severely endangered. However, since the Sámi and Kven languages were used privately and hidden from public arenas, they were not completely erased, and there is still a basis for their (re)vitalization and reclamation. These processes are now supported in the very same arenas where these languages were sanctioned, namely educational institutions, workplaces and public arenas (e.g. Huss 2008;Huss and Lindgren 2010;Pietikäinen et al. 2010). Historically, transnational migration to Northern Norway (e.g. Brochmann and Kjeldstadli 2014; Hiss 2017) contributed to linguistic diversity though not to the extent that can be seen in the twenty-first century.The Norwegian minority policy and the development of linguistic diversity in Northern Norway have been described in three main historical phases (e.g. Niemi 1995; Huss and Lindgren 2010). In the first phase, which lasted until the 1860s, the policy was described

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Multilingual Awareness in South African Language Portraits: Exploring the Usefulness of a DMM and DLC Framework

Rooy,

Jessner

2024

Second Language Learning and Teaching

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‘Then suddenly I spoke a lot of Spanish’ – Changing linguistic practices and heritage language from adolescents’ points of view

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Identidades y agencias lingüísticas entre adolescentes El español como lengua de herencia en contexto escolar

Identidades y agencias lingüísticas entre adolescentes El español como lengua de herencia en contexto escolar

Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway

Multilingual Awareness in South African Language Portraits: Exploring the Usefulness of a DMM and DLC Framework

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