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Language Socialization, Language Ideologies, and Language Shift Among School-Aged Children

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Language socialization research seeks linkages between the local level at which culturally significant activities are constructed by participants, the social structures and institutional settings of a community, and larger political and economic processes of globalization, modernization, and social change. Many language socialization studies conducted in multilingual societies have explored the interconnections between the process of language socialization and widespread processes of language change, maintenance, and shift. In order to illuminate language ideologies and how they operate in societies with which our readers may not be familiar, this chapter examines various factors in the process of language socialization outside of North America that underlie an ongoing process of language shift (see chapter “Bi- and Multilingual Family Language Socialization” by Fogle and King, this volume, for research on North American settings): the role of language ideologies as they change over time; the role of schooling, language-of-instruction policies, and the complex dynamics surrounding these policies; the interplay between home language policies and children’s language use; and the role of peers and siblings in school-aged children’s language socialization, including the creation of covert and subaltern language ideologies that impact this process of language shift.

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  1. Teacher Education and Foundations Department, California State University, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407, USA

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    Stephen May

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Howard, K.M. (2017). Language Socialization, Language Ideologies, and Language Shift Among School-Aged Children. In: Duff, P., May, S. (eds) Language Socialization. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02255-0_13

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