The Scale of Modernity in the Heritage Language Classroom
Journal of Language, Identity and Education, cilt.21, sa.4, ss.265-279, 2022 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/15348458.2020.1791712
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Language, Identity and Education
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Communication & Mass Media Index, Communication Abstracts, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, Psycinfo
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.265-279
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Classroom discourse, identity, microethnography, scales, Turkish as a heritage language
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Discourse and identity practices in heritage language contexts have received significant attention in applied linguistics in recent years. One line of research in this realm has sought to adopt scales, the spatiotemporal niches within which social identification and learning take place. This article problematizes modernity as a scale of its own and investigates it in the context of the heritage language classroom discourse at a German high-school in Berlin. Microethnographic analyses of 10th-grade classroom interactional data reveal how Turkish heritage language students appropriate Turkish modernity and debate identity models around it while at the same time bringing to the table German/Western modernity and its contents. The article sheds light on the multiplicity of heritage language identities and situates scales as an important determinant in their construction.