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Translating childhoods : immigrant youth, language, and culture / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rutgers series in childhood studiesPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813548630
  • 0813548632
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Translating childhoods.DDC classification:
  • 306.874086/912 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U5 O77 2009eb
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Contents:
Translating frames -- Landscapes of childhood -- Home work -- Public para-phrasing -- Transculturations -- Transformations -- Translating childhoods.
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Summary: Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-176) and index.

Translating frames -- Landscapes of childhood -- Home work -- Public para-phrasing -- Transculturations -- Transformations -- Translating childhoods.

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Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev

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