Language Socialization and Schooling

Abstract

This chapter reviews language socialization research conducted in schools over time and across the globe. It begins with an overview of early conceptual and empirical research conducted during the field’s first 25 years. The focus then shifts to recent work conducted since the year 2005, organized thematically into three areas: first, studies of contact and change in communities where contemporary communicative practices echo historical processes of social and political stratification; second, research highlighting difference within diaspora that provides empirical lessons regarding the tensions produced during interactions among members of different social groups; and third, ideological considerations that draw attention to the underlying beliefs that often shape everyday interaction. The chapter closes with a discussion of existing, at times enduring, challenges and with a call for new directions within school-based language socialization research.