"Broken Arabic" and Ideologies of Completeness

Through weekly participant observations and eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with second-generation bilingual students in the Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners course at one of City University of New York's (CUNY) senior colleges, I investigate the interdiscursive connecti...

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Autor: Love, Stephanie V.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:158716
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/158716
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.679
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Heritage language
Arabic sociolinguistics
Incomplete acquisition
Linguistic anthropology
Patrimoine linguistique
Sociolinguistique arabe
Acquisition incomplète
Anthropologie linguistique
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Sumario:Through weekly participant observations and eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with second-generation bilingual students in the Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners course at one of City University of New York's (CUNY) senior colleges, I investigate the interdiscursive connections between the students' notion of "broken Arabic" and the concept of "incomplete acquisition and/or attrition" (Montrul, 2013) from SLA research on heritage speakers. This paper moves away from the concept of proficiency towards performativity in order to recognize and support diverse repertoires in motion.