Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

by Janet M. Fuller

Book Overview

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for this examination bilingual pre-teen children in Germany and the U.S. in order to demonstrate how local identities are embedded in a wider social world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041580728X
• ISBN13: 9780415807289
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"