Visiting 'Home': Contacts with the homeland, self-reflexivity and emergent migrant bilingual identities

• Main Authors: WILLIAMS, Alan, SETIJADI, Charlotte
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: migration; ESL; bilingualism; diaspora; sociolinguistics; Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2754; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4011/viewcontent/TIC2011V021N01_042.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There has been increasing interest recently in the way that additional language learners' identities are affected and changed by their experiences in developing proficiency in another language. In the case of migrants, this is also affected by familiarity with their new country and language, an...