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

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Stephanie V. Love

A través de l'observació setmanal dels participants i onze entrevistes semiestructurades realitzades amb estudiants bilingües de la segona generació en una classe de l'àrab per parlants nadius/parlants de la llengua d’origen  (heritage language speakers) en City University de Nova York (CUNY), faig recerca en les connexions interdiscursivas entre la noció, per part dels estudiants, sobre ‘l’àrab trencat’ i el concepte de ‘l’adquisició incomplet' i/o 'l'atrició' (Montrul, 2013). En aquest treball s'allunya del concepte de domini de la llengua cap a la seva performativitat per tal de reconèixer i donar suport a diversos repertoris en moviment.

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heritage language, Arabic sociolinguistics, incomplete acquisition, linguistic anthropology

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Love, Stephanie V. «“Broken Arabic” and Ideologies of Completeness: Contextualizing the Category of Native and Heritage Speaker in the University Arabic Classroom». Bellaterra: journal of teaching and learning language and literature, 2016, vol.VOL 9, núm. 2, p. 78-93, http://raco.cat/index.php/Bellaterra/article/view/310698.
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Stephanie V. Love

Stephanie V. Love is a Ph.D. student in linguistic anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and a teaching fellow at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her research interests include diaspora studies in the Mediterranean, heteroglossia, Arabic sociolinguistics and language ideologies, bilingual and adult education, and ethnography of death and burial in Algeria. She has published articles in the International Journal of Multicultural Education and Current Issues in Language Planning. She has recently co-edited a volume on the Italian author Elena Ferrante, which will be published by Palgrave McMillian in the fall of 2016.