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This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. By focusing on a different practice in each family (i.e. narrative talk about the day, metalinguistic discourse or languaging, and code-switching), the analyses uncover different types of learner agency and show how language socialization is collaborative and co-constructed. The learners in this study achieve agency through resistance, participation, and negotiation, and the findings demonstrate the complex ways in which novices transform communities in transnational contexts. The perspectives inform the fields of second language acquisition and language maintenance and shift. The book further provides a rare glimpse of the "idian negotiations of adoptive family life and suggestions for supporting adoptees as young bilinguals.

Second language acquisition --- Socialization --- Adoption --- English language --- Bilingualism --- Code switching (Linguistics) --- Study and teaching --- Russian speakers --- Case studies --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Germanic languages --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Child placing --- Foster home care --- Parent and child --- Second language acquisition - Case studies --- Socialization - Case studies --- Adoption - Case studies --- English language - Study and teaching - Russian speakers - Case studies --- Bilingualism - Case studies --- Code switching (Linguistics) - Case studies --- Script switching (Linguistics) --- Russia. --- adoption. --- language acquisition. --- language education. --- socialization.