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

by Kiri Lee Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614513996
• ISBN13: 9781614513995
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"