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

Author(s)
Bilbatua, Lidia
Ellis, Elizabeth M
Publication Date
2011
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.
Citation
Voces Hispanas, v.8, p. 10-15
ISSN
1832-0740
Link
https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11514
Language
en
Publisher
Embajada de Espana en Australia y Nueva Zelanda, Consejeria de Educacion [Spanish Embassy in Australia and New Zealand, Ministry of Education]
Title
Bilingual Identity: Language and cultural shift in the experience of a Basque-Spanish immigrant to Australia
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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