The changing face of the "native speaker" : perspectives from multilingualism and globalization / edited by Nikolay Slavkov, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerschhofer-Puhalo, Nadja, editor.

Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia, editor.

Slavkov, Nikolay, editor.

Series:

Trends in applied linguistics ; Volume 31.

Trends in applied linguistics ; Volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Native language.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. In a very broad sense, applied linguistics is understood by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives. The following topics are included in the series: Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages Bilingual and multilingual education Language planning and language policy Literacy skills Second/foreign language pedagogy Translation and interpretation Language for specific purposes Discourse analysis Language testing and assessment Child language Language and gender Pragmatics and rhetorics Corpus analysis Critical pedagogies Research methodology in applied linguistics Language and technology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: The changing face of the “native speaker”

Part one: Conceptual discussions

Chapter 1 Why the mythical “native speaker” has mud on its face

Chapter 2 The multilingual and multicompetent native speaker

Chapter 3 New speakers: New linguistic subjects

Part two: Practices and representations

Chapter 4 Is there a native speaker in the class? A didactic view of a problematic notion

Chapter 5 On the paradox of being native speakers of two “competing” languages: Turkish as the mother or the father tongue of Greek nationals

Chapter 6 What kind of speakers are these? Placing heritage speakers of Russian on a continuum

Chapter 7 The out-of-sight of “native speaker”: A critical journey through models of social representations of plurilingual identities

Chapter 8 Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging

Part three: Policies and controversies

Chapter 9 Provenance and possession: Rethinking the mother tongue

Chapter 10 The pluricentricity and ownership of English

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

Chapter 12 Questioning the questions: Institutional and individual perspectives on children’s language repertoires

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5015-1210-2

1-5015-1235-8

OCLC:

1286806229