Anya Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning

Speaking Blackness in Brazil
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-40271-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities. Uju Anya’s study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. Video-recorded interactions, student journals, interviews, and writing assignments show how multiple intersecting identities are enacted and challenged in second language learning. Thematic, critical, and conversation analyses describe ways black Americans learn to speak their material, ideological, and symbolic selves in Portuguese and how linguistic action reproduces or resists power and inequity. The book addresses key questions on how learners can authentically and effectively participate in classrooms and target language communities to show that black students' racialized identities and investments in these communities greatly influence their success in second language learning and how successful others perceive them to be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anya, Uju

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The African American experience in second language learning 2. Telling black stories in language learning research 3. Nina’s story: Race and ethnicity in classrooms and outside 4. Didier’s story: Translanguaging black manhood in multicultural contexts 5. Leti’s story: The racialized, gendered, and social classed body 6. Rose’s story: Redefining participation and success in second language learning 7. Communities and investments in second language learning

Über Autor(innen)

Uju Anya is Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at the USC Rossier School of Education Master of Arts in Teaching program.