Bonacina-Pugh2013
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Florence Bonacina-Pugh |
| Title | Categories and language choice in multilingual classrooms: the relevance of ‘teacher-hood’ |
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| Tag(s) | Membership Categorization Analysis, EMCA, Multilingualism, Classroom, Language Choice, French |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Language and Education |
| Volume | 27 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 298-313 |
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| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2013.788021 |
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Abstract
This paper introduces Membership Categorisation Analysis to the study of language choice in multilingual classrooms. Building on the argument developed in studies of bilingual talk in non-educational settings that language choice is a category-bound activity, it aims to investigate the extent to which categories are relevant to language choice and alternation acts in multilingual classrooms. The discussion is based on a case study of an induction classroom for newly arrived immigrant children in France where multiple languages are used in addition to French, the language prescribed by the school language policy. A Membership Categorisation Analysis of a corpus of interaction audio-recorded in this classroom shows that the category ‘teacher-hood’ (a term I propose to refer to ‘doing being’ the teacher) is relevant to language choice and alternation acts. More specifically, in this classroom, language choice acts are bound to the category ‘teacher-hood’ and the co-selective relationship between ‘teacher-hood’ and language choice is used by the classroom participants as a ‘practiced language policy’; that is, as a way to know what language(s) is appropriate in interaction. I further show how the classroom participants creatively play with the performance of ‘teacher-hood’ to allow multiple languages in interaction.
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