Publications

Publication details [#61519]

Antonini, Rachele. 2016. Caught in the middle: child language brokering as a form of unrecognised language service. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (7) : 710–725.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language adjustment | foreign language acquisition | immigrant | mediation | translating

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Immigrant children's narratives, gathered via a school competition (Traduttori in Erba), reveal the influence of their language broker practices on their lives and their vast contribution to succor their families in communicating with the institutions of their novel Italian home country.