Publications

Publication details [#56433]

Lytra, Vally. 2012. Discursive constructions of language and identity: parents' competing perspectives in London Turkish complementary schools. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (1) : 85–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | family conversation | language maintenance | language proficiency | native speaker

Language as a subject

English, British | Turkish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores how parents, raised in the UK, assess their own and their children's Turkish language competence as compared against a ‘native’ speaker norm strongly rooted in their countries of origin.