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Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes

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This chapter looks at the interlinking of language and culture in home settings. It understands language socialization to be intertwined with family experiences. It draws on a sociocultural lens to understand how children draw on richly textured home literacy and language practices to support their linguistic repertoires. The chapter discusses ways in which digital and multimodal literacies contribute to these multilingual repertoires within homes and communities. An understanding of the fluid and complex world of translanguaging within and beyond linguistic repertoires is provided within recent scholarship. Literacy and language practices are constantly travelling in the context of increasing urbanization and globalization, and this chapter provides an account of the changing research traditions that support theorization of these practices. The chapter begins with a discussion from Vygotsky (In: Cole M, John-Steiner V, Scribner S, Souberman E (eds) Mind in society: the development of higher psychological processes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1978) about the relationship between language and tools. The argument is concerned with the ways socialization happens in home settings, and the discussion centers on the complex intertextual weaving of linguistic practices that have been observed within home settings. Ethnographic research is ideally placed to make these observations. Children’s linguistic practices are multimodal, multilingual, and digital and travel across sites, creating new kinds of practices as they evolve. This chapter provides an account of research that captures these practices in all of their complexity.

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Pahl, K. (2017). Language Socialization and Multimodality in Multilingual Urban Homes. 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_9

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