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Applied Linguistics Review
From the journal Applied Linguistics Review Volume 16 Issue 4

Abstract

Migration stories are at the heart of how many immigrant-background Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) construct a sense of home, community, and identity across spatiotemporal scales. Nevertheless, narratives containing difficult knowledge (e.g., about war) are generally seen as threats to, rather than as assets in language learning and in education more broadly, and as such, are rarely drawn on in classrooms. In this paper I analyse excerpts from a group interview that I conducted with four grade-four girls during a year-long ethnographic case study. In particular, I examine how we all used various linguistic and paralingiustic resources to construct play frames. The play frames created a lower-stakes space in which to navigate the emotionally complex cultural memories that my interview questions about origins and migration prompted. The findings have implications for how language teachers listen to and engage with their HLLs’ funds of difficult knowledge.

Keywords: bilingual education; heritage language learners; difficult knowledge; discourse analysis; playfulness; children
Corresponding author: Ava Becker, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, E-mail:

Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Award Identifier / Grant number: 752-2014-2305

  1. Reserch Funding: This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (752-2014-2305)

Appendix A

( ) My descriptions of linguistic and extra-linguistic communication
[ ] My clarifications
[xxx] Indecipherable
bold Speaker emphasis
italics Spanish
[

[		 Indicates the beginning of an overlapping turn
= Turn starts immediately following the previous turn
: Drawn-out syllables (more colons indicate greater drawing out)
word. word Short yet noticeable pause between words
… Voice trails off, resulting in a short pause between thoughts or phrases
– The speaker’s turn was cut short
.h In-breath
@ One pulse of laughter (within a word)

  1. Question marks, exclamation marks, periods at the end of a line, and commas are used conventionally, as they are in regular prose. Proper names are also capitalized.

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Keywords for this article
bilingual education; heritage language learners; difficult knowledge; discourse analysis; playfulness; children

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