Bilingual Identity: Language and cultural shift in the experience of a Basque-Spanish immigrant to Australia

Title
Bilingual Identity: Language and cultural shift in the experience of a Basque-Spanish immigrant to Australia
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Bilbatua, Lidia
Ellis, Elizabeth M
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-7651
Email: eellis4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:eellis4
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Embajada de Espana en Australia y Nueva Zelanda, Consejeria de Educacion [Spanish Embassy in Australia and New Zealand, Ministry of Education]
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:11713
Abstract
This is a very personal account of a Spanish immigrant, Nerea, achieving bilingualism in Wollongong, NSW. The story raises questions of the complex development of identity, changing awareness of sociocultural practices in each language, and of the role played by attitudes in the surrounding community to a person's bilingualism. This article is in two parts: in the first part Nerea's story is told in her own voice, and in the second the authors connect Nerea's individual experience to wider social patterns concerning bilingualism, identity and aspects of recent immigration to Australia.
Link
Citation
Voces Hispanas, v.8, p. 10-15
ISSN
1832-0740
Start page
10
End page
15

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