Project description
A closer look at heritage bilingualism
In the enigmatic realm of heritage language bilingualism, understanding the dynamics between linguistic competence and societal engagement poses a challenge. The unique population of high-performing heritage language speakers remains significantly understudied, hindering our comprehension of native language acquisition. With the support of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the CODE-V project will explore the complex interplay between capacity, opportunity and desire in heritage language variation, promising transformative insights into bilingualism’s enigmatic facets. Specifically, this innovative approach decodes formal and informal capacity development, social/cultural opportunity creation and individual/parental desires. CODE-V promises unprecedented insights into native language acquisition challenges. From formal and theoretical realms to societal dynamics, CODE-V’s findings are poised to redefine our understanding of bilingualism.
Objective
Capacity, Opportunity and Desire in Heritage Language Variation (CODE-V) offers a novel approach, never used in this capacity in this context before, to examine a significantly understudied natural laboratory population of heritage language bilingualism (HLB). Moving above and beyond the current state-of-the-art in HLB studies, CODE-V works with high-performing heritage language speakers (HHSs) and aims to understand the relationship between their heritage language (HL) competence and nature of their HL experience through the lens of their community center engagement patterns. Through its novel adaptation of sociocultural/educational framework, CODE-V examines this severely understudied HLB context, decoding in a systematic way: (i) formal and informal Capacity (C) development activities, social/cultural Opportunity (O) creation efforts, and individual/parental Desires (D); (ii) what underlying linguistic competence HHSs possess and (iii) how such linguistic competence develops and changes over time and across generations in relation to the relative weighting of linguistic and environmental factors (i.e. community center engagement) that predict their HHS status. CODE-V maintains that studying one extreme end of the HL outcome continuum will be a unique position to offer novel evidence addressing the variation in HL outcomes that has posed challenges to our understanding of native language acquisition and the role of input. CODE-V’s findings, both formal/theoretical, methodological and societal/sociolinguistic, will make significant contributions to a more complete picture of bilingualism, heritage language bilingualism more specifically, and its societal dynamics, for theory building as well as addressing HSs’ societal and educational needs.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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9019 Tromso
Norway
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