Language Socialization across the Lifespan
This research examines how people learn and negotiate culturally and institutionally situated ways of speaking and behaving through language-mediated interactions across the lifespan and diverse social and institutional contexts. For more than two decades, I have studied language socialization from childhood to late adulthood, including parent–child interactions in Taiwan and the US, school-based interactions in middle and high schools in Taiwan, and interactions in senior classes and long-term care settings in Taiwan and the US. This line of work contributes to a lifespan perspective on language socialization, highlighting how communicative practices, identities, and social relationships are shaped and reshaped across different stages of life and sociocultural contexts.
Research Grants
2022 – 2024 Communication in dementia care: A language socialization study (失智照護與溝通: 語言社會化觀點) Ministry of Science and Technology
2012 – 2013 Multilingual language socialization in adult Mandarin education in Taiwan (台灣老人與外籍配偶的「識字」教育: 多語語言社會化之探討) National Science Council
Research Publications
Lin, S. & Wu, J. (2022). Transforming identities and ideologies: Creating translanguaging space with overseas Chinese students in Taiwan. Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 19(1), 87-120.
Lin, S. (2018). “Then you can ride the scooter to run away!” Gender positioning of marriage-migrants in adult Mandarin education in Taiwan,” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21, 617-631.
Ke, I.-C. & Lin, S. (2017). A translanguaging approach to TESOL in Taiwan. English Teaching & Learning. 41(1), 33-61.
Guo, Y.-J. & Lin, S. (2016). L2 Oral academic discourse socialization through group discussion in TESOL. The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3(1), 17-26.
Lin, S. (2015). Circulating discourses of minority education: The linguistic construction of modernity in globalizing Taiwan. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 46(1), 71-87.
Korte, R., & Lin, S. (2013). Getting on board: Organizational socialization and the contribution of social capital. Human Relations, 66(4), 407-428.
Miller, P. J., Fung, H., Lin, S., Chen, E. C., & Boldt, B. (2012). How socialization happens on the ground: Narrative practices as alternate socializing pathways in Taiwanese and European-American families. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Vol 77).
Korte, R., & Lin, S. (2011). Investing for success: Newcomer socialization and the development of social capital. Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference.
Miller, P. J., Koven, M., & Lin, S. (2011). Language socialization and narrative. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. Schieffelin (Eds.), The Handbook of Language Socialization (pp. 190-208). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Miller, P. J., Chen, E. C., & Lin, S. (2009). Narrative. In R. Shweder, T. Bidell, A. Dailey, S. Dixon, P. J. Miller, & J. Modell (Eds.), The Child: An encyclopedic companion. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
McCarthey, S. J., Garcia, G. E., Lopez, A., Lin, S., & Guo, Y. (2004). Understanding writing contexts for English language learners. Research in the Teaching of English, 38, 351-394.
Work in Progress
Lin, S. (In preparation). Language socialization of an older illiterate woman with dementia in long-term care.
Lin, S. (In preparation). Language socialization in later adulthood: Care interactions in Taiwan and an Asian American Community in the United States.
Conference Presentations
Chen, Y.-H. & Lin, S. (2018). Multilingual mediated language socialization of young children at home. Paper presented at International Conference on English Teaching and Learning. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Lin, S. (2017). Second language learners as mothers: Educating marriage-migrants to educate their children. Conference on Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.