“Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom

Through weekly participant observations and eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with second-generation bilingual students in the Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners course at one of City University of New York’s (CUNY) senior colleges, I investigate the interdiscursive connections...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8b6b5e69a54b4681bb3d96b542832d482021-11-25T13:21:13Z“Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom10.5565/rev/jtl3.6792013-6196https://doaj.org/article/8b6b5e69a54b4681bb3d96b542832d482016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/679https://doaj.org/toc/2013-6196 Through weekly participant observations and eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with second-generation bilingual students in the Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners course at one of City University of New York’s (CUNY) senior colleges, I investigate the interdiscursive connections between the students’ notion of “broken Arabic” and the concept of “incomplete acquisition and/or attrition” (Montrul, 2013) from SLA research on heritage speakers. This paper moves away from the concept of proficiency towards performativity in order to recognize and support diverse repertoires in motion. Stephanie V. LoveUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleheritage languageArabic sociolinguisticsincomplete acquisitionlinguistic anthropologySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Language and LiteraturePCAENESFRBellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, Vol 9, Iss 2 (2016)
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language CA
EN
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topic heritage language
Arabic sociolinguistics
incomplete acquisition
linguistic anthropology
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Language and Literature
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spellingShingle heritage language
Arabic sociolinguistics
incomplete acquisition
linguistic anthropology
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Language and Literature
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Stephanie V. Love
“Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
description Through weekly participant observations and eleven semi-structured interviews conducted with second-generation bilingual students in the Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners course at one of City University of New York’s (CUNY) senior colleges, I investigate the interdiscursive connections between the students’ notion of “broken Arabic” and the concept of “incomplete acquisition and/or attrition” (Montrul, 2013) from SLA research on heritage speakers. This paper moves away from the concept of proficiency towards performativity in order to recognize and support diverse repertoires in motion.
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author Stephanie V. Love
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title “Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
title_short “Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
title_full “Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
title_fullStr “Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
title_full_unstemmed “Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom
title_sort “broken arabic” and ideologies of completeness: contextualizing the category of native and heritage speaker in the university arabic classroom
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate 2016
url https://doaj.org/article/8b6b5e69a54b4681bb3d96b542832d48
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