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Young People's Emerging Multilingual Practices : Learning Language or Literacy, or Both? (2019)
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne (2019). Young People's Emerging Multilingual Practices : Learning Language or Literacy, or Both?. In Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta; Golden, Anne; Holm, Lars; Laursen, Helle Pia; Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne (Eds.) Reconceptualizing Connections between Language, Literacy and Learning, Educational Linguistics, 39. Cham: Springer, 35-54. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26994-4_3
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne
Parent publication: Reconceptualizing Connections between Language, Literacy and Learning
Parent publication editors: Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta; Golden, Anne; Holm, Lars; Laursen, Helle Pia; Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne
ISBN: 978-3-030-26993-7
eISBN: 978-3-030-26994-4
Journal or series: Educational Linguistics
ISSN: 1572-0292
eISSN: 2215-1656
Publication year: 2019
Number in series: 39
Pages range: 35-54
Number of pages in the book: 279
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Cham
Publication country: Switzerland
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26994-4_3
Open Access: Publication channel is not openly available
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67451
Abstract
Research on language learning and research on literacy are typically seen as two separate strands of enquiry and thus the concepts of language and literacy have traditionally been kept apart. This is partly due to epistemological questions related to language and literacy. In this chapter, I will discuss these concepts in the context of multilingualism. Approaching multilingual language use from the perspective of literacy practices enables us to look beyond language to social practices and to examine the relationship between the concepts of language and literacy, literacy practices and language learning. Two data sets are used to illustrate how language, literacy, and language learning are connected. The first set illustrates what understandings of language and language learning emerge when Finnish teenagers talk about their literacy practices. The second data set examines how Sámi children conceptualize their multilingual repertoires and make use of their resources in literacy practices. The relationship between the concepts of language, literacy, and learning in multilingual contexts seems to be complex, changing, and situated. Language appears to be intertwined in literacy practice, language and literacy seem to be developing side by side, and literacy can be both liberating and constraining.
Keywords: language learning; literacy; multilingualism; young people; ethnography
Free keywords: literacy practices; language; language learning; multilingualism; multilingual repertoires; resource; social practices; ethnographic
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Ministry reporting: Yes
Reporting Year: 2019
JUFO rating: 2
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