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Aging in a Second LanguageLanguage Resocialization and Gender Allies

Aging in a Second Language: Language Resocialization and Gender Allies [This chapter investigates how language socialization in the immigrant context cannot be separated from gender roles and their associative sociolinguistic practices. Exclusionary interactions that emanate either from the dominant or immigrant community have the potential to limit both women and men’s mobility and their access to native-speaking interlocutors. Studies in immigrant gender identities link potential changes in social position to the simultaneous shifts experienced by immigrants in a new economic context. Participating in formal language resocialization may deviate from expected gender roles and may be discouraged by family and friends. As our data show, however, the ESL classroom space can be a site where older women and men renegotiate gender norms to become gender allies in the process of second-language acquisition.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Aging in a Second LanguageLanguage Resocialization and Gender Allies

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-57608-4
Pages
119 –133
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-57609-1_8
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Abstract

[This chapter investigates how language socialization in the immigrant context cannot be separated from gender roles and their associative sociolinguistic practices. Exclusionary interactions that emanate either from the dominant or immigrant community have the potential to limit both women and men’s mobility and their access to native-speaking interlocutors. Studies in immigrant gender identities link potential changes in social position to the simultaneous shifts experienced by immigrants in a new economic context. Participating in formal language resocialization may deviate from expected gender roles and may be discouraged by family and friends. As our data show, however, the ESL classroom space can be a site where older women and men renegotiate gender norms to become gender allies in the process of second-language acquisition.]

Published: Jun 1, 2017

Keywords: Language resocialization; Gender identity; Social positioning; Gendered literacy; Gendered labor; Gendered settings; Social competence; Ally work

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