Asian Immigrant Communities' Civic Participation in Cultivating Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the United States

Kwangok Song
{"title":"Asian Immigrant Communities' Civic Participation in Cultivating Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the United States","authors":"Kwangok Song","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-8283-0.CH008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how Asian immigrant communities in the United States cultivate Asian immigrant children's literacy learning in their heritage languages. Although the United States has historically been a linguistically diverse country, bilingualism has not always been valued and acknowledged. Strong social and institutional expectations for immigrants to acquire the socially dominant language have resulted in language shifts among immigrants. Concerned about their descendants' heritage language loss, Asian immigrant communities make organized efforts to establish community-based heritage language schools. Heritage language schools play an important role in immigrant children's learning of their heritage language and culturally appropriate ways of behaving and communicating. It has also been noted that heritage language schools encounter several challenges in motivating heritage language learners. Heritage language schools should be considered as complementary education for immigrant students because they take critical responsibilities to support immigrant students' language and literacy development in their heritage languages.","PeriodicalId":447187,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Research on Engaging Immigrant Families and Promoting Academic Success for English Language Learners","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Handbook of Research on Engaging Immigrant Families and Promoting Academic Success for English Language Learners","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8283-0.CH008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

This chapter discusses how Asian immigrant communities in the United States cultivate Asian immigrant children's literacy learning in their heritage languages. Although the United States has historically been a linguistically diverse country, bilingualism has not always been valued and acknowledged. Strong social and institutional expectations for immigrants to acquire the socially dominant language have resulted in language shifts among immigrants. Concerned about their descendants' heritage language loss, Asian immigrant communities make organized efforts to establish community-based heritage language schools. Heritage language schools play an important role in immigrant children's learning of their heritage language and culturally appropriate ways of behaving and communicating. It has also been noted that heritage language schools encounter several challenges in motivating heritage language learners. Heritage language schools should be considered as complementary education for immigrant students because they take critical responsibilities to support immigrant students' language and literacy development in their heritage languages.
美国亚裔移民社区在培养双语和双语能力中的公民参与
本章讨论美国亚裔移民社区如何培养亚裔移民儿童的母语读写能力。虽然美国历史上一直是一个语言多样化的国家,但双语并不总是受到重视和承认。社会和制度对移民习得社会主导语言的强烈期望导致了移民之间的语言转换。由于担心后代的传统语言流失,亚裔移民社区有组织地努力建立以社区为基础的传统语言学校。传统语言学校在移民儿童学习他们的传统语言和文化上适当的行为和交流方式方面发挥着重要作用。人们还注意到,传统语言学校在激励传统语言学习者方面遇到了一些挑战。遗产语言学校应被视为对移民学生的补充教育,因为它们承担着支持移民学生在其遗产语言中的语言和读写能力发展的关键责任。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:604180095
Book学术官方微信