Chapter 11 “I want to be bilingual!” Contested imaginings of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Canada

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: The changing face of the “native speaker” 1
4. Part one: Conceptual discussions
5. Chapter 1 Why the mythical “native speaker” has mud on its face 25
6. Chapter 2 The multilingual and multicompetent native speaker 47
7. Chapter 3 New speakers: New linguistic subjects 71
8. Part two: Practices and representations
9. Chapter 4 Is there a native speaker in the class? A didactic view of a problematic notion 103
10. Chapter 5 On the paradox of being native speakers of two “competing” languages: Turkish as the mother or the father tongue of Greek nationals 133
11. Chapter 6 What kind of speakers are these? Placing heritage speakers of Russian on a continuum 155
12. Chapter 7 The out-of-sight of “native speaker”: A critical journey through models of social representations of plurilingual identities 179
13. Chapter 8 Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging 209
14. Part three: Policies and controversies
15. Chapter 9 Provenance and possession: Rethinking the mother tongue 233
16. Chapter 10 The pluricentricity and ownership of English 253
17. Chapter 11 “I want to be bilingual!” Contested imaginings of bilingualism in New Brunswick, Canada 285
18. Chapter 12 Questioning the questions: Institutional and individual perspectives on children’s language repertoires 315
19. Afterword 347
20. Index 353