Menard-Warwick Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84769-215-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Language and Literacy Studies

This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Latin American immigration to the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menard-Warwick, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: The social context of immigrant language learning Chapter Two: Second language learning as gendered practice Chapter Three: Gendered narratives of immigrant language learners Chapter Four: The sociohistorical construction of parental involvement in education Chapter Five: Gendered positioning in ESL classroom activities Chapter Six: Changing gender ideologies in local communities Chapter Seven: Gendered identities and language learning: Continuing the dialogue References Appendix A: Discourse transcription conventions Appendix B: Focal participants’ demographics Appendix C: Data collected on participants

Über Autor(innen)

Menard-Warwick Julia:
Julia Menard-Warwick is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California Davis, USA. Her research interests include bilingual identity development, second language learning and teaching, and narrative. She is the author of 'Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning' (Multilingual Matters, 2009).Julia Menard-Warwick is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics department at University of California Davis, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in areas such as language pedagogy, second language literacy and technology, and language and gender. Before beginning doctoral studies in 1999, she taught ESL for ten years at a community college in Washington state (USA), and for one year at a university in Nicaragua. Her on-going research focuses on language pedagogies, bilingual development, cultural identities, and language ideologies in both US and Latin American contexts.