Transliteration as a bridge to learning for bilingual children

Al-Azami, Salman; Kenner, Charmian; Ruby, Mahera; Gregory, Eve

doi:10.1080/13670050903406335

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“…Whilst there exists a body of research focussing on heritage language speakers in comparatively large communities in the England (see e.g. Al-Azami et al 2010;Kenner et al 2008;Sneddon 2000), as well as on translanguaging and spatial multilingualism in specific public spaces (see e.g. Blackledge and Creese 2017;Blackledge, Creese, and Hu 2016), the experiences in the home of families who are not a part of identified languages communities are less well documented.…”

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Whose heritage? What inheritance?: conceptualising family language identities

Little

2017

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Migration, global mobility and language learning are well established as independent and interrelated fields of study. With nearly one fifth of children in British primary schools classed as speakers of English as an Additional Language (EAL), there remains much to explore in the field of heritage language research. This paper reports on a survey of 212 heritage language families and ten family interviews with families who, though not living in isolation, are not part of large, well-established, local communities. The study reported here explores the families' attitudes towards heritage language development, and their efforts to maintain, support or develop the heritage language in their families. The paper puts forward an original framework which can be used to conceptualise how different uses and perceptions of the heritage language use may be linked to identity, and concludes with recommendations on how relatively isolated heritage language families and their small community networks may be better supported to enable children more fully to benefit from the advantages of their multilingual, multicultural capital.

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Whose heritage? What inheritance?: conceptualising family language identities

Little

2017

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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“…,Al-Azami, et al (2010), andBlackledge and Creese (2009) have done a number of studies on the spoken discourses of the immigrant Bangladeshi community in the United Kingdom, and all of them have used transliteration in Roman scripts and translation for Bangla. Transcription of specific Bangla and English words are given in International Phonetic Alphabets (IPAs).…”

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Young adults' linguistic manipulation of English in Bangla in Bangladesh

Sultana

2012

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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It is commonly assumed in the print media that bilingual young adults in Bangladesh are subjugated by the colonial legacy of English and they are 'polluting' Bangla, the national language of Bangladesh, by their indiscriminate insertion of English in it. However, this ethnographic study on a group of young adults in a university in Bangladesh shows that this assumption is simplistic and inadequate. A close linguistic analysis of extracts from their face-to-face and virtual conversations on Facebook illustrates that they (1) use linguistic and semantic forms of both English and Bangla very creatively, strategically and pragmatically, (2) bring in diversity to Bangla not only from English but also from different genre of discourses, and eventually (3) transgress the boundary of the Bangla language. English in fact provides them with newer metalinguistic and indexical opportunities. The study also identifies that the nationalist stance in favour of Bangla may not allow a fuller appreciation of the complex linguistic scenario in Bangladesh. At the end, the study suggests a prospect of a future research that may provide important insights into the socio-cultural dynamics of bilingualism in English and Bangla in the social landscape of Bangladesh as well as in other multilingual contexts.

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“…Writers, according to Mphahlele (2004), consider transliteration as the swiftest procedure to generate equivalents between the languages in use, the source and the target, and exercise it as a lexicographical and terminological principle. Transliteration, as per the observation of Al-Azami, Kenner, Ruby, and Gregory (2010), is a practical strategy that is adopted by the writers in such contexts where the written form of the target language is either unfamiliar or does not otherwise exist. Contrary to the translation that only provides the exact meanings of the borrowed vocabulary items, transliteration also helps the readers to utter the borrowed words in the similar way as they are pronounced in the source language.…”

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Pakistani English Newspaper Paid Obituary Announcements: A Descriptive Analysis of the Transliterated Vocabulary

2016

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The study, qualitative and descriptive in nature, examines the use of transliteration in the paid Pakistani obituary announcements authored in the English language. Primarily, it identifies the frequently used transliterated vocabulary in these linguistic messages and reconnoiters the functional relationship that emerges in and between the textual moves of these announcements due to the linkage created by these transliterated words and phrases. Additionally, the study sheds light on the motives of the authors of these announcements behind opting for this lexical borrowing. Data, for the purpose, comes from the two prominent Pakistani English newspapers: The Dawn and The News International. The study concludes that the transliterated vocabulary used in the Pakistani English obituary announcements is a needbased, religiously and culturally enthused, lexical borrowing that not only helps the authors of these texts convey their intentional messages effectively but also enhances the exactness and spontaneity of the contents of these announcements.

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Transliteration as a bridge to learning for bilingual children

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Whose heritage? What inheritance?: conceptualising family language identities

Whose heritage? What inheritance?: conceptualising family language identities

Young adults' linguistic manipulation of English in Bangla in Bangladesh

Pakistani English Newspaper Paid Obituary Announcements: A Descriptive Analysis of the Transliterated Vocabulary

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