Publications

Publication details [#51460]

Maurer-Hetto, Marie-Paule. 2009. Struggling with the languages of the 'legitimate market' and the 'islets of liberty' (Bourdieu). A case study of pupils with immigrational background in the trilingual school-system of Luxembourg. The International Journal of Multilingualism 6 (1) : 68–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language use | multilingualism | school | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

French | German | Luxembourgish | Portuguese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study uses a qualitative, ethnographically oriented methodology to explore how two Portuguese children of immigrant background cope with the intricate sociolinguistic context and the demands of the Luxembourgish multilingual (Luxembourgish, German, French) school-system.