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Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel
Schwartz, Mila; KIRSCH, Claudine; Mortini, Simone
2020In Applied Linguistics Review, 13 (5), p. 819-841
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Keywords :
child's agentic behaviour; multilingual context; novel language learning; preschool education
Abstract :
[en] Drawing on two longitudinal case-studies, this study aimed to identify some salient characteristics of the agentic behaviour of two young emergent multilinguals in two different multilingual contexts: Luxembourg and Israel. Despite the fact that the studies were conducted independently, the two cases were analysed together owing to the similarities in the research methods such as video-recorded observations, and semi-structured interviews with teachers and parents. The data were analysed through thematic and conversational analyses. Findings showed that a boy who learned Luxembourgish in Luxembourg and a girl who learned Hebrew in Israel, were outgoing and active learners who influenced their learning environment. We identified ten types of agentic behaviour, including engaging in repetition after peers and the teacher, creatively producing language, translanguaging, and self-monitoring. Despite differences of the children's sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the language policies of their educational settings, we found a striking overlap in their language-based agentic behaviours. We suggest that the identified types can encourage further research in this field. Although our study with talkative children allowed us to observe many types of agentic behaviours, we cannot claim that less outgoing children or children who do not show the same behaviours do not have ways of expressing their agency.
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Schwartz, Mila
KIRSCH, Claudine  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS)
Mortini, Simone
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Young children’s language-based agency in multilingual contexts in Luxembourg and Israel
Publication date :
06 August 2020
Journal title :
Applied Linguistics Review
ISSN :
1868-6303
eISSN :
1868-6311
Publisher :
De Gruyter Mouton
Volume :
13
Issue :
5
Pages :
819-841
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
FnR Project :
FNR9989225 - Developing Multilingual Pedagogies In Early Childhood Education, 2015 (01/05/2016-30/04/2019) - Claudine Kirsch
Funders :
MENJE
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