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Aging in a Second LanguagePracticing Safe Language Socialization in Private and Public Spaces

Aging in a Second Language: Practicing Safe Language Socialization in Private and Public Spaces [This chapter centers on both private and public spaces to uncover the ways language capital is generated by older adult learners. In their private, domestic life they may experience a reversal of typical age-based language socialization roles. For older second language learners, their immigrant children and grandchildren are often positioned as linguistic “caretakers” for their parents and elders. This role reversal of language caretakers within a household may lead to poor socio-pragmatic and linguistic input for older language learners if children withdraw from socializing with them in English or offer narrow linguistic input. Older adults may also find themselves in similar role reversals in public settings where they do not have language authority, such as at work. We explore the ways resources tied to conventional family and societal roles are shored up and redeployed with the aid of ESL language resocialization. The ESL classroom offers a range of symbolic and material resources to support older immigrants to regain capital lost due to the rearrangement of familial and public social roles.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-57608-4
Pages
105 –118
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-57609-1_7
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Abstract

[This chapter centers on both private and public spaces to uncover the ways language capital is generated by older adult learners. In their private, domestic life they may experience a reversal of typical age-based language socialization roles. For older second language learners, their immigrant children and grandchildren are often positioned as linguistic “caretakers” for their parents and elders. This role reversal of language caretakers within a household may lead to poor socio-pragmatic and linguistic input for older language learners if children withdraw from socializing with them in English or offer narrow linguistic input. Older adults may also find themselves in similar role reversals in public settings where they do not have language authority, such as at work. We explore the ways resources tied to conventional family and societal roles are shored up and redeployed with the aid of ESL language resocialization. The ESL classroom offers a range of symbolic and material resources to support older immigrants to regain capital lost due to the rearrangement of familial and public social roles.]

Published: Jun 1, 2017

Keywords: Language socialization; Communication domains; Multilingual society; Role strain; Elderspeak; Kin work; Inner speech

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