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Abshir, Fatima – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
As humans, we all experience the fundamental need to belong. Often, this sense of belonging is inherited and nurtured by our families and their histories, the languages we speak and the cultures we adhere to; and it is in our experiences and engagement with these aspects of ourselves that our identities are formed, contested, negotiated and…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Native Language, Afro Asiatic Languages, Indo European Languages
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Ahmed, Anwar; Morgan, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Postmemory, the narrativised intergenerational transfer of often traumatic experiences, is a crucial component of multilingual identity negotiation. In this article, we focus specifically on the curricular interactions and personal and collective aspirations of multilingual students who use English for academic purposes. We situate our discussions…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Vasquez, Mary S. – Bilingual Review, 2007
Diego Vazquez Jr.'s novel "Growing Through the Ugly" (1997) and Gloria Lopez-Stafford's memoir of childhood "A Place in El Paso: A Mexican American Childhood" (1996) offer two divergent views of the west Texas city and its surrounding desert. In the vision created in the Vazquez text, El Paso is a site of exploitation,…
Descriptors: Children, Mexican Americans, War, Memory