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Becoming National: Classroom Language Socialization and Political Identities in the Age of Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2010

Debra A. Friedman
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Abstract

Although schools have long been recognized as primary sites for creating citizens of the modern nation-state, in recent years traditional assimilationist and exclusionist notions of national identity have been challenged by competing values of multiculturalism, hybridity, and transnationalism. This article surveys recent language socialization research that has examined classrooms as sites for socializing novices into political identities associated with membership in a national or transnational community. It explores five broad themes: (a) socialization into the national language, (b) socialization of immigrants, (c) socialization into new forms of national identity, (d) socialization of minority political identities within nation-states, and (e) socialization and transnational identities. The survey concludes with a review of the contributions of a language socialization approach to the study of these issues as well as suggested directions for future research.

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 30 , March 2010 , pp. 193 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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