ISBN:
9780761868064
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (115 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4460973
Keywords:
Native language
;
Native language
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Tongue Shakers provides an inside look into the state of speaking mother tongue in America's multicultural society. Through a series of interviews and first person narratives, the book uncovers the personal challenges faced by those learning a new language and celebrates their triumphs.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1 Mother Tongue Coming to America -- Living through the Bosnian War -- ESL Classes Brings Friendship to a Little Boy -- Africa at the Center -- Braiding a Path to Entrepreneurship -- From Doctor to Translator -- Learning English in Exile -- Back to Africa -- There's No Place Like Home -- Speaking English and Driving Fast -- The American Myth: Seeing Is Believing -- Mother and Daughter Interview -- I Can't Talk to My Grandmother -- Ethiopian at Heart -- The Road to English Is Long -- Learning by Watching -- Forever Mother Tongue -- Americans Help Me Speak English -- Translating for Love -- From Rome with Love -- Speaking Fulani, Connecting to Heritage -- Patois from the Island of Jamaica -- Coming to America -- Salsa in the Afternoon -- America Here I Am -- Blacks Speak Spanish Too -- Beating the Odds -- Section 2 Mother Tongue American Style -- The Culture Bearer -- Spanish American Style -- A Work in Progress -- A Honduran Bronx Tale -- Blacxicana -- Section 3 Black English as Mother Tongue -- A Perspective on African-American Language -- Code Switching: A Tool for Survival -- If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?* -- We Be Speakin' -- Creole Missed Me, Black English Found Me -- From Black English to Slang to Mandarin -- Appendix A: Poems -- Code Breakers & Tongue Shakers -- Chakras of Refugee Embodiment or 7 Ways to Love Your Asian Body by Tu Anh Phan -- ESL by Anonymous -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaire Guides -- Interview Questionnaire Guide (Black English) -- References -- Index.
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