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Double New Speakers? Language Ideologies of Immigrant Students in Galicia

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This chapter focuses on a community of Cape Verdean immigrants living in a small fishing town in northern Galicia. The Cape Verdean immigrants at the centre of this study are ‘new speakers’ of both Spanish and Galician, while at the same time native speakers of Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. In this chapter, I examine the language practices and ideologies of teachers and Cape Verdean students in two Galician secondary schools. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and non-participant classroom observation, I explore the challenges that are faced by immigrant ‘new speakers’ who are in the process of acquiring new linguistic resources and negotiating their identity. Furthermore, I look at the interplay between the school’s promotion of (dominant) beliefs and ideologies and the immigrant community’s access to social capital.

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Notes

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    Interviewees were given the option to conduct their interview in either Galician or Spanish. Overall, student participants tended to choose Spanish, while the majority of teachers opted for Galician. All translations are my own.

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    For the purposes of this chapter, pseudonyms have been used for the name of the research site and for the names of participants.

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  1. Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Nicola Bermingham

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  1. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Cassie Smith-Christmas

  2. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Noel P. Ó Murchadha

  3. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

    Michael Hornsby

  4. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Máiréad Moriarty

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Bermingham, N. (2018). Double New Speakers? Language Ideologies of Immigrant Students in Galicia. In: Smith-Christmas, C., Ó Murchadha, N., Hornsby, M., Moriarty, M. (eds) New Speakers of Minority Languages. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_6

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