Language Socialization in Classrooms

Matthew J. Burdelski is Professor of Applied Japanese Linguistics at Osaka University, Japan. Focusing on Japanese and US classrooms and communities, his research utilizes language socialization and conversation analysis to investigate adult-child and children's multimodal interactions in teaching, learning, acquiring, and using Japanese as a first, second, and heritage language. Kathryn M. Howard is Associate Dean and Director of Clinical Experiences and Partnerships at California State University, Channel Islands. Her work focuses on how multilingual children develop a range of linguistic resources from multiple languages in formal (classrooms) and informal educational contexts to display or enact social identities and to engage in complex social relationships.

1. Introduction. Language socialization in classrooms Matthew J. Burdelski and Kathryn M. Howard; Part I. Socializing Values, Dispositions, and Stances: 2. Interactional contingencies and contradictions in the socialization of tolerance in a Spanish multicultural school Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez; 3. Shaping Sikh youth subjectivities in a US gurdwara: discursive socialization of religious heritage in Sikh history classes Wendy Klein; 4. Affective stance and socialization to Orthodox Christian values in a Russian heritage language classroom Ekaterina Moore; Part II. Socializing Identities: 5. Learning to be a poet: Chjam'è Rispondi in a Corsican school Alexandra Jaffe; 6. Teaching words, socializing affect and social identities: negotiating a common ground in a Swedish as a second language classroom Asta Cekaite; 7. Making the familiar change: language socialization via contrapuntal interaction in a US high school language arts class Betsy Rymes and Andrea Leone-Pizzighella; 8. Negotiating epistemic authority and co-constructing difference: socializing 'nonnative speaker' teachers in a US graduate program in TESOL Debra Friedman; Part III. Language Socialization and Ideology: 9. The morning assembly: constructing subjecthood, authority, and knowledge through classroom discourse in an Indian school Usree Bhattacharya and Laura Sterponi; 10. Embodiment, ritual, and ideology in a Japanese-as-a-heritage-language preschool classroom Matthew J. Burdelski; 11. Talking about lunch: diversity, language, and food socialization in a Danish kindergarten classroom Martha Sif Karrebæk; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. Language socialization in classrooms: findings, issues, and possibilities Patricia A. Duff.