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Beyond Perfection: The Beauty of Imperfect Language Learning: "Imperfect" Language Learning, Identity, and Resistance Across Generations
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Series: Beyond Perfection, Book 1
LinguisticsBilingual EducationImmigration & Refugees
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9781636075723
Publisher: Calec
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 494
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does it mean to inherit, lose, reclaim, and live through language imperfectly?
Beyond Perfection: The Beauty of Imperfect Language Learning - Volume 1 brings together scholars, educators, parents, and multilingual individuals who explore heritage language learning across generations. Through personal narratives, autoethnographies, duoethnographies, and community-centered research, the contributors examine how language is shaped by migration, race, family life, schooling, parenting, memory, and the everyday negotiations of belonging.
The chapters in this volume challenge the idea that multilingualism must be balanced, complete, or native-like in order to be meaningful. Instead, they reveal the creativity, resilience, and emotional depth of multilingual lives that unfold through accents, gaps, silences, mixed sentences, partial fluencies, and acts of cultural transmission.
From bilingual parenting and intergenerational storytelling to linguistic shame, pop culture, translanguaging, and the reclamation of identity, this volume shows that imperfect heritage language learning is not failure. It is a powerful process through which memory, culture, resistance, and connection are sustained across families and communities.
Together, these voices invite readers to move beyond narrow standards of fluency and correctness, and to recognize the beauty of multilingual lives as they are: unfinished, adaptive, deeply human, and full of meaning.
A compelling volume for readers interested in the intimate, intergenerational forces that shape how people learn, remember, and belong.
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