Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. This work focuses on how learners achieve agency in second language socialization processes and informs the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift.

Building on prior language socialization research in first language and bilingual
contexts, in this book I have discussed how language socialization processes (
e.g. telling stories about the day, talking about language and code-switching)
play ...