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Newcomers Navigating Language Choice and Seeking Voice: Peer Talk in a Multilingual Primary School Classroom in F inland
Author(s) -
Mökkönen Alicia Copp
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12011
Subject(s) - negotiation , ethnography , sociology , perspective (graphical) , normative , discourse analysis , pedagogy , linguistics , political science , social science , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , anthropology , law
This article investigates how two young newcomers navigate an institutional policy of “ E nglish only” in a Finnish primary school and how this policy impacts opportunities for voice. From a discourse analytic and sociolinguistic perspective, the analysis takes an ethnographic path to a focal event of language conflict in the classroom. The analysis reveals that these two learners negotiate more powerful voices for themselves, despite responding differently to normative practices for code use in the classroom.