Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online: A Chronotopic Lens

This article presents a case study with two transnational Mexican youth that came from larger of the digital media practices young people in an urban high school. Our takes chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1981) lens to understand youths' accounts their communication. Analysis interviews and observations when they described online activities show employed literacies vicariously “live” experiences keep up life away families Mexico. The situated three distinct but dialogical chronotopes (family, hometown, transborder) create connections make sense who are. They drew on artifacts narrate themselves, developed familial, cultural, political knowledge, expanded linguistic repertoires process. findings have implications for TESOL classrooms seek build border-crossing multimodal resources learning. We discuss how embedded serve construct multiple contexts vantage points developing identities these could be recognized as agentic forms narrative production learning classroom.