Bilingual students' self-perceptions of identity and investment in dual language classrooms

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Language Learner Educational Experiences: Listening Anxiety, Identity, Efficacy, Accessibility, and Investment (Table 8)

Abstract

This study will be examining how elementary students enrolled in a dual language program decide to use their entire linguistic repertoire when constructing their identity as a bilingual individual. The study is specifically interested in examining students who are stronger in one language than another, and how those individuals do or do not see and portray themselves confidently as bilingual individuals.

Author

• Stephanie R. Eller, Northern Illinois University