Constructing the Heritage Language Learner: Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities

Neriko Doerr; Kiri Lee

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Constructing the Heritage Language Learner

Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities

Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 103 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested by researchers, school administrators and the students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2007-2011 at a weekend Japanese language school in the United States, this monograph investigates the construction of the heritage language learner at the intersections of the knowledge-power complex, ideologies of language and national belonging, and politics of schooling. It examines the ways individuals become, resist and negotiate their new subjectivity as heritage language learners through becoming objects of study, being caught in nationalist aspirations and school politics regarding what to teach to whom, and negotiating with peers with various linguistic proficiency and family backgrounds. The volume proposes a new approach to view the notion of heritage language learner as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging, while offering practical suggestions for schools.

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Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College, USA; Kiri Lee, Lehigh University, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: The heritage language learner? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2. An emerging field of investigation: Construction of the heritage language learner as a new object of study Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
3. Ethnographic fieldwork at Jackson Japanese Language School Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
4. Betwixt and between Japanese and the heritage language learner of Japanese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
5. Designing the heritage language learner: Modes of governmentality in the classroom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
6. Defining the heritage language learner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
7. Shifting frames of reference: JJLS, AP, heading college, and construction of the Japanese-as-aheritage- language learner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
8. Adjusting the Jackson Course Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
9. Implications and departure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
Appendix 1: First Questionnaires for Parents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Appendix 2: Second Questionnaires for Parents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	160
Appendix 3: First Questionnaires for Students Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Appendix 4: Second Questionnaires for Students Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Appendix 5: Questionnaires for Teachers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Appendix 6: Questionnaires for Parents of Students Who Were Leaving or Had Left JJLS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Appendix 7: Questionnaires for Students Who Were Leaving or Had Left JJLS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Appendix 8: Summary of Student Interviews and Profiles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Appendix 9: Glossary of Japanese Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187

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May 28, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9781614512837

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May 21, 2013

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9781614513995

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14

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188

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512837

eBook ISBN: 9781614512837

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Keywords for this book

Sociolinguistics; Subjectivity; Heritage Language School; Language Education; Japanese

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Scholars of and Practitioners in Language Instruction, Foreign Language, Heritage Language, Bilingual Education

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