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North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an ‘ITA problem’, a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs’ linguistic competence and undergraduates’ and their parents’ expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.

Graduate teaching assistants --- College teaching --- English language --- Germanic languages --- College teacher aides --- College teacher assistants --- Graduate assistants (Teaching assistants) --- Graduate teaching fellows --- TAs (Graduate teaching assistants) --- Teaching assistants, Graduate --- Teaching fellows, Graduate --- College teachers --- Graduate students --- Training of --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign students --- Applied Linguistics. --- Assessment. --- Global Englishes. --- ITA problem. --- International Teaching Assistants. --- Introduction to Applied Linguistics. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Teaching English as a Second Language. --- Transdisciplinary.

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Language Socialization in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies is a multidisciplinary, multinational collection of essays that explore language socialization from very early childhood through adulthood, not only in oftenstudied communities in Canada and the United States, but also in Australia, Bolivia, Egypt, India and Slovakia. The global perspective gained by the inclusion of studies of communities representing every inhabited continent provides readers with an indication of the richness of the field as well as a guide for future work. The book includes chapters focusing on language socialization at different stages of the lifespan – at home and in schools, communities and workplaces. Authors focus on well-known communities, such as Mexican-Americans in the United States and Francophones in Canada, as well as on communities that are less familiar to many readers, such as the Aymara in Bolivia, the Inuit in northern Québec and minority Hungarians in Slovakia. The breadth and theoretical sophistication of this volume make it a suitable text for upper-division and graduate courses in bilingualism, language education and sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics. --- Socialization. --- Bilingualism. --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Child socialization --- Children --- Enculturation --- Social education --- Education --- Sociology --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Socialization --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- bilingualism. --- language socialization. --- multilingualism. --- sociolinguistics.