Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Language Socialization in Korean Transnational Communities

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Language Socialization

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Language and Education ((ELE))

  • 145 Accesses

Abstract

Language socialization (LS) in transnational communities involves complexity and multiplicity in terms of languages, ideologies, identities, and sociocultural norms including the dynamic notions of community and competence. The recent trend in transnational migration by Korean families with school-age children for English acquisition has been largely motivated by globalization and language ideologies of English in Korea. Recent LS studies reflect this new face of Korean transnationalism, bringing a broader perspective that goes beyond the micro, interactional aspects of Korean language learning and cultural understanding. The new areas include transnational youth’s LS practices and their projected cosmopolitan identity, the role of English acquisition in families’ class maintenance and distinction, and LS and language ideologies of capital. Exploring these various aspects of Korean, English, and bilingual language socialization practices in Korean transnational communities, this chapter discusses what it means to be competent in transnational spaces.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Anderson, B. (1991). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (Revised ed.). New York: Verso.

    Google Scholar 

  • Basch, L. G., Glick Schiller, N., & Blanc, C. S. (1994). Nations unbound: Transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments, and deterritorialized nation-states. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bayley, R., & Schecter, S. (Eds.). (2003). Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

    Google Scholar 

  • Byon, A. S. (2003). Language socialization and Korean as a heritage language: A study of Hawaiian classrooms. Language, Culture, and Curriculum, 16(3), 269–283.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Choi, S.-C., Kim, U., & Choi, S. H. (1994). Individualism, collectivism, and child development: A Korean perspective. In P. Greenfield & R. Cocking (Eds.), Cross-cultural roots of minority child developments (pp. 227–257). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clancy, P. (1989). A case study in language socialization: Korean Wh-questions. Discourse Process, 12(2), 169–192.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Duff, P. A., & Hornberger, N. (Eds.). (2008). Encyclopedia of language and education, volume 8: Language socialization (2nd ed.). New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Duranti, A., Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. B. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook of language socialization. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Garrett, P., & Baquedano-López, P. (2002). Language socialization: Reproduction and continuity, transformation and change. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 339–361.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Han, N. (2004). Language socialization of Korean-American preschoolers: Becoming a member of a community beyond the family. Unpublished dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heller, M. (2003). Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7(4), 473–492.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jeon, M. (2008). Korean heritage language maintenance and language ideology. Heritage Language Journal, 6(2), 206–223.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jo, H.-Y. (2001). ‘Heritage’ language learning and ethnic identity: Korean Americans’ struggle with language authorities. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 14, 26–41.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kang, A. (2003). Negotiating conflict within the constraints of social hierarchies in Korean American discourse. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 7(3), 299–329.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kang, Y. (2012). Singlish or Globish: Multiple language ideologies and global identities among Korean educational migrants in Singapore. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16, 165–183.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kang, J., & Abelmann, N. (2011). The domestication of South Korean pre-college study abroad (PSA) in the first decade of the millennium. Journal of Korean Studies, 16, 89–118.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kanno, Y., & Norton, B. (2003). Imagined communities and educational possibilities: Introduction. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2(4), 241–249.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kim, J., & Duff, P. A. (2012). The language socialization and identity negotiations of generation 1.5 Korean-Canadian university students. TESL Canada Journal, 29(6), 81–102.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee, D. (1975). Some problems in learning Korean second person pronouns. In H. Sohn (Ed.), The Korean language: Its structure and social projection (pp. 19–32). Honolulu: Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lee, J. S. (2002). The Korean language in America: The role of cultural identity in heritage language learning. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 15(2), 117–133.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee, J. S., & Shin, S. J. (2008). Korean heritage language education in the United States: The current state, opportunities, and possibilities. Heritage Language Journal, 6, 153–172.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lo, A. (2004). Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school. Pragmatics, 14(2/3), 235–256.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lo, A. (2009). Lessons about respect and affect in a Korean heritage language school. Linguistics and Education, 20, 217–234.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ong, A. (1999). Flexible citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, E. (2006). Grandparents, grandchildren, and heritage language use in Korean. In K. Kondo-Brown (Ed.), Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian immigrants (pp. 57–86). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Park, E. (2008). Intergenerational transmission of cultural values in Korean American families: An analysis of the verb suffix “-ta”. Heritage Language Journal, 6(2), 21–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, H. (2014). Socialization of morality as a cultural value in young children: Perspectives of first generation Korean American mothers. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, J. S.-Y., & Bae, S. (2009). Language ideologies in educational migration: Korean jogi yuhak families in Singapore. Linguistics and Education, 20, 366–377.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Park, J. S.-Y., & Lo, A. (2012). Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16, 147–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Poole, D. (1992). Language socialization in the second language classroom. Language Learning, 42, 593–616.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schieffelin, B. B., & Ochs, E. (1986a). Language socialization. Annual Review of Anthropology, 15, 163–191.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schieffelin, B. B., & Ochs, E. (Eds.). (1986b). Language socialization across cultures. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shin, H. (2012). From FOB to cool: Transnational migrant students in Toronto and the styling of global linguistic capital. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16, 184–200.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shin, S.-Y. (2010). The functions of code-switching in a Korean Sunday School. Heritage Language Journal, 7(1), 91–116.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shin, S. J. (2005). Developing in two languages: Korean children in America. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shin, S. J. (2006). High-stakes testing and heritage language maintenance. In K. Kondo-Brown (Ed.), Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants (pp. 127–144). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

    Google Scholar 

  • Shin, S. J., & Milroy, L. (2000). Conversational codeswitching among Korean-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 4(3), 351–383.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, M. P., & Guarnizo, L. E. (Eds.). (1998). Transnationalism from below. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sohn, H. (1999). Korean. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Song, J. (2009). Bilingual creativity and self-negotiation: Korean American children’s language socialization into Korean address terms. In A. Reyes & A. Lo (Eds.), Beyond yellow English: Towards a linguistic anthropology of Asian Pacific America (pp. 213–232). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Song, J. (2010). Language ideology and identity in transnational space: Globalization, migration, and bilingualism among Korean families in the USA. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 31, 23–42.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Song, J. (2012a). Imagined communities and language socialization practices in transnational place: A case study of two Korean “study abroad” families in the United States. Modern Language Journal, 96, 507–524.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Song, J. (2012b). The struggle over class, identity, and language: A case study of South Korean transnational families. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 16, 201–217.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Urciuoli, B. (2008). Skills and selves in the new workplace. American Ethnologist, 35, 211–228.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Watson-Gegeo, K. A. (2004). Mind, language, and epistemology: Toward a language socialization paradigm for SLA. Modern Language Journal, 88(3), 331–350.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yi, Y. (2009). Adolescent literacy and identity construction among 1.5 generation students: From a transnational perspective. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 19(1), 100–129.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yun, S. (2008). Role-play and language socialization among bilingual Korean children in the United States. Simulation and Gaming, 39(2), 240–252.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Murray State University, 42071, Murray, KY, USA

    Juyoung Song

Authors
  1. Juyoung Song
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Juyoung Song .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Patricia A. Duff

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, School of Critic, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG

About this entry

Cite this entry

Song, J. (2017). Language Socialization in Korean Transnational Communities. In: Duff, P., May, S. (eds) Language Socialization. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02327-4_24-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02327-4_24-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-02327-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-02327-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference EducationReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Education

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation