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Translanguaging as a Heritage Language Maintenance Strategy

Translanguaging as a Heritage Language Maintenance Strategy

Nataliya Kharchenko
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781668437384|ISBN10: 1668437384|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668437391|EISBN13: 9781668437407
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3738-4.ch006
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Kharchenko, Nataliya. "Translanguaging as a Heritage Language Maintenance Strategy." Autoethnographic Perspectives on Multilingual Life Stories, edited by Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu, et al., IGI Global, 2022, pp. 84-98. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3738-4.ch006

APA

Kharchenko, N. (2022). Translanguaging as a Heritage Language Maintenance Strategy. In E. Hancı-Azizoglu, Ş. Şahinkarakaş, & D. Tannacito (Eds.), Autoethnographic Perspectives on Multilingual Life Stories (pp. 84-98). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3738-4.ch006

Chicago

Kharchenko, Nataliya. "Translanguaging as a Heritage Language Maintenance Strategy." In Autoethnographic Perspectives on Multilingual Life Stories, edited by Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu, Şehnaz Şahinkarakaş, and Dan J. Tannacito, 84-98. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3738-4.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter presents a multilingual autoethnography that emerged in the process of doing a research project on heritage language maintenance in Canada. This autoethnography is about a culturally and linguistically mixed family where a young child is trying to navigate and intuitively use the right language with the right people at the right place, at the same time developing her insatiable desire to experiment with new words, sentences, and narratives. Using all three languages from her linguistic repertoire, this child illustrates some possibilities of translanguaging at a very young age. Besides significant and well-documented pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, the author's attempt in this chapter is also to present a new aspect of translanguaging as one of the possible heritage language maintenance strategies among immigrant families.

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