‘Then suddenly I spoke a lot of Spanish’ – Changing linguistic practices and heritage language from adolescents’ points of view

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ID21203283
AuthorsRagni Vik Johnsen (0000-0001-5839-6763, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume15
Issue2
Pages105-125
Publication date2021-04-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Multilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1931-3152 • E-ISSN: 1931-3160
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19313152.2020.1821320
OpenAlexW3092567499
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited36

This article investigates the multilingual experiences of three Norwegian and Spanish-speaking adolescents with transnational backgrounds. Drawing on narrative analysis and positioning theory, the article seeks to understand how the adolescents position themselves in relation to different expectations of linguistic competence, identities, and their cultural and linguistic inheritance. By investigating adolescents’ experiences of family multilingualism and heritage languages, as expressed in interviews and language portraits drawings (cf), the article adds to recent efforts in family multilingualism research toward understanding the experiences of multilingual children and adolescents. Moreover, the article expands on the current scholarly discussions of heritage language identities (cf), by shedding light on how adolescents hold complex multilingual experiences and how they continuously adapt to changing sociolinguistic circumstances within the family context

Heritage language · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Metalinguistics · Multilingualism · Narrative · Norwegian · Pedagogy · Sociology · Teaching method · Vocabulary development · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology

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