Flunking the Spanish Test: Television Portrayals of Personal Responsibility and Language Shift in Heritage Learners

Autor/inn/en	DuBord, Elise M.; Becker, Elizabeth
Titel	Flunking the Spanish Test: Television Portrayals of Personal Responsibility and Language Shift in Heritage Learners
Quelle	In: Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 19 (2022) 2, S.97-119 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (DuBord, Elise M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1542-7587
DOI	10.1080/15427587.2021.1935956
Schlagwörter	Spanish; Language Maintenance; Family Relationship; Language Usage; Heritage Education; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Native Language; Language Skill Attrition; Television; Programming (Broadcast); Hispanic Americans; Language Attitudes; Preadolescents; Cultural Maintenance; Neoliberalism; English (Second Language); Discourse Analysis; Family Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spanisch; Sprachpflege; Sprachgebrauch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachverfall; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Programmgestaltung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Sprachverhalten; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	The language practices of Heritage Learners (HLs) of Spanish are frequently regulated and stigmatized in academic and community settings when their Spanish is perceived as deficient. By ignoring institutional structures that accelerate Spanish loss, the "inadequacy" of Latinxs' Spanish is regularly perceived to be the fault of individuals or families. This study examines language ideologies that emerge in popular television shows for pre-teens (i.e. tweens), revealing that HLs are regularly portrayed as failing Spanish in academic settings and unable to complete everyday communicative tasks in Spanish. When their lack of Spanish is woven into the narrative of a sitcom problem, the resolution of these conflicts leads youth, parents, and grandparents to reflect on their individual responsibility to maintain the language and culture, which reinforces a neoliberal ideology of family responsibility for language maintenance. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01