Journal Article

Bilingualism as Conceptualized and Bilingualism as Lived: A Critical Examination of the Monolingual Socialization of a Child with Autism in a Bilingual Family

Yu, Betty

2016

Overview

This is an ethnographic and discourse analytic case study of a bilingual, minority-language family of a six-year-old child with autism whose family members were committed to speaking English with him. Drawing on family language policy , the study examines the tensions between the family members’ stated beliefs, management efforts, and their actual practices around language use with their child. The findings show that many assumptions held by family members about language use and bilingualism were inconsistent with their everyday language practices. A practice and discourse-analytic approach to bilingualism offers a theoretical and methodological lens through which to investigate these discrepancies and to recast the interactional achievements between the child and his parents as situated bilingual practices.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Academic Achievement / Autism / Autism Spectrum Disorders / Autistic children / Autistic Disorder - psychology / Behavioral Science and Psychology / Beliefs / Bilingualism / Case Studies / Child / Child and School Psychology / Children / Children & youth / Conversation analysis / Dialogs (Language) / Discourse / Discourse Analysis / Discrepancies / English / English language / Ethnography / Families & family life / Family (Sociological Unit) / Family - psychology / Family Relationship / Family roles / Humans / Intervention / Language / Language attitudes / Language Dominance / Language maintenance / Language Minorities / Language Planning / Language policy / Language Tests / Language Usage / Languages / Linguistics / Male / Minority languages / Monolingualism / Multilingualism / Native Language / Native languages / Neurosciences / Parent Child Relationship / Parent-child relations / Parents / Parents & parenting / Pediatrics / Psychology / Public Health / Qualitative research / Relatives / S.I: Discourse and conversation analytic approaches to the study of ASD / Socialization / Speaking / Speech therapy / Verbal communication