Language Socialization across Home, School, & Community

This is a survey of research on language socialization from a variety of sociocultural groups across a range of sociolinguistic contexts. After starting with seminal works of those like Heath and Ochs, the course compares later models such as communities of practice and ecological orientations. Particular attention is given to multilingual and multimodal communication in professional and family contexts, concluding with their implications for classroom instruction.