Publications

Publication details [#55356]

Pomerantz,, Anne and Adam Schwartz. 2011. Border talk: narratives of Spanish language encounters in the United States. Language and Intercultural Communication 11 (3) : 176–196.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | intercultural communication | language and culture | narrative | university

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study explores the stories, told by US foreign language students enrolled in university-level Spanish courses, about their language acquisition histories and experiences. It examines how these stories build specific, and often asymmetrical, social and linguistic borders.