Publications

Publication details [#51378]

Martin-Jones, Marilyn, Buddug Hughes and Anwen Williams. 2009. Bilingual literacy in and for working lives on the land: case studies of young Welsh speakers in North Wales. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (195) : 39–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | economics | literacy | student | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English, British | Welsh

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study demonstrates that the language choices and literacy practices of five students (aged 16 to 19), enrolled in a bilingual agricultural course in a local Welsh college, were defined by the nature of their land-based enterprises, global agricultural changes, changes in farmers' everyday work routines and changes in the literacy practices and text uses in contemporary workplaces.