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Online Socialization into Languages and Religion: Tracing the Experiences of Transnational Families

Sari, Artanti Puspita
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1514946376856087

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This ethnographic study documents the ways four Indonesian-Muslim families who migrated to the United States used online digital telecommunication technology in socializing children into languages, literacy, and religion. Within the primary framework of language socialization, I used multiple theoretical lenses (i.e., transnationalism, cultural and social capital, and community of practice). Through these lenses, I explored children's processes of becoming competent members of families and communities. In transnational families who came from cultures in which their extended families and communities play significant roles in children's upbringing, the use of online technology is important in raising the next generation. Studies of transnational online language socialization has mainly focused on adolescents and adults. These previous studies examined how language learning and identity formation occur through online interactions between participants of the same age range. This study contributes to the language socialization field by providing insights into online family practices to understand the roles of parents, extended families, and communities in children's socialization. Using the conceptual lenses of transnationalism (Levitt, 2001; Vertovec, 2009) and simultaneity of connection (Levitt and Glick Schiller, 2004), I found that the participants' movement to the United States shaped the way they apprenticed their children's socialization into multiple communities. Online digital telecommunication technology had provided ways in which families lived simultaneously within local as well as across translocal and transnational borders. These simultaneous connections supported parents in socializing children into languages and religion tied to their multiple identities and memberships by using and enhancing their cultural and social capital (Bourdieu, 1986). I examined each family through the lenses of social field (Bourdieu, 1993) and as a community of practice (Wenger, 1998). Using the lens of social field, I aimed to understand how power-relationship between parents and children allowed the parents to use their cultural and social capital to leverage multiple connections. The concept of community of practice assisted me in understanding how master-apprentice relationship between the parents and children directed the children's process of developing competence in languages and religion. In spite of these relationships, the children were not passive members as they established independency and agency. While increasing their own mastery of languages and religion, children reciprocally contributed to developing that of their parents' and transformed language and literacy practices within the families. Practices in the families were influenced by an aim to reach a common goal, which was to assist children in becoming competent individuals in non-religious and religious scopes. The competence was deemed important in overcoming societal marginalization. The research provides additional information to language educators and researchers about the possible funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff, and Gonzales, 1992) that family language and literacy practices as well as the community have to offer through leverage of online technology. This information may be of useful insights in strengthening home and school connections.
Leslie Moore (Advisor)
346 p.
English As A Second Language; Literacy; Multicultural Education; Multilingual Education; Multimedia Communications
language socialization; transnationalism, simultaneity of connection

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  • Sari, A. P. (2018). Online Socialization into Languages and Religion: Tracing the Experiences of Transnational Families [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1514946376856087

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sari, Artanti. Online Socialization into Languages and Religion: Tracing the Experiences of Transnational Families . 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1514946376856087.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sari, Artanti. "Online Socialization into Languages and Religion: Tracing the Experiences of Transnational Families ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1514946376856087

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