Doktorandenkolloquium

The next PhD colloquium will take place on July 15th, 2022. Interested parties are cordially invited! The program and further information will be announced in due time.

Doktorandenkolloquium

On February 10, 2022, three doctoral students will present their dissertation projects at the Doctoral Colloquium:

Presentations will be given starting at 9:00 am. Interested listeners are welcome!

https://wwu.zoom.us/j/63538460623?pwd=Nk9aM0l5N2dnZHdlTUhTbkttTjMvZz09
Meeting-ID: 635 3846 0623
Code: GSeal

Abstract: Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) constitutes an important site of children’s language socialization, as it is commonly the first step beyond the more intimate home sphere into active involvement in societal institutions. The entanglement of children’s participation and their language socialization is multi-faceted as it takes place throughout their engagement in a multitude of situations across different participatory roles (de León, 2011). In this presentation, I will shed light on two different pieces of the puzzle: children’s participation in multiparty interaction in the context of bidialectalism and children’s spontaneous singing in non-formalized interaction.

Based on a linguistic ethnography of a bidialectal pre-school in Dutch Limburg, I discuss how children’s participation takes shape at the interplay of ideologies, practices, and policies. My analysis shows how teachers and toddlers use both Dutch and the regional language Limburgish, respectively, as well as other semiotic means such as singing to shape situational interactional participation in a way that resonates with the sociocultural arena of the pre-school, and dominant societal language ideologies more generally. Furthermore, the micro-interactions studied on base of participant observation as well as audio- and video-recordings, highlight children’s linguistic agency in processes of meaning-making involving the use of Dutch, Limburgish, and singing in the pre-school.