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Mexican Americans and Language

Author : Glenn A. Mart’nez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816523740
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans and Language written by Glenn A. Mart’nez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political activists rallied for the abolition of bilingual education and even called for the declaration of English as an official language, Mexican Americans and other immigrant groups saw this as an assault on their heritage and civil rights. Because language is such a defining characteristic of Mexican American ethnicity, nearly every policy issue that touches their lives involves language in one way or another. This book offers an overview of some of the central issues in the Mexican American language experience, describing it in terms of both bilingualism and minority status. It is the first book to focus on the historical, social, political, and structural aspects of multiple languages in the Mexican American experience and to address the principles and methods of applied sociolinguistic research in the Mexican American community. Spanish and non-Spanish speakers in the Mexican American community share a common set of social and ethnic bonds. They also share a common experience of bilingualism. As MartA-nez observes, the ideas that have been constructed around bilingualism are as important to understanding the Mexican American language experience as bilingualism itself. Mexican Americans and Language gives students the background they need to respond to the multiple social problems that can result from the language differences that exist in the Mexican American community. By showing students how to go from word to deed (del dicho al hecho), it reinforces the importance of language for their community, and for their own lives and futures.

Mexican Americans and Language

Author : Glenn A. Martínez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816549079
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans and Language written by Glenn A. Martínez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political activists rallied for the abolition of bilingual education and even called for the declaration of English as an official language, Mexican Americans and other immigrant groups saw this as an assault on their heritage and civil rights. Because language is such a defining characteristic of Mexican American ethnicity, nearly every policy issue that touches their lives involves language in one way or another. This book offers an overview of some of the central issues in the Mexican American language experience, describing it in terms of both bilingualism and minority status. It is the first book to focus on the historical, social, political, and structural aspects of multiple languages in the Mexican American experience and to address the principles and methods of applied sociolinguistic research in the Mexican American community. Spanish and non-Spanish speakers in the Mexican American community share a common set of social and ethnic bonds. They also share a common experience of bilingualism. As Martínez observes, the ideas that have been constructed around bilingualism are as important to understanding the Mexican American language experience as bilingualism itself. Mexican Americans and Language gives students the background they need to respond to the multiple social problems that can result from the language differences that exist in the Mexican American community. By showing students how to go from word to deed (del dicho al hecho), it reinforces the importance of language for their community, and for their own lives and futures.

Mexican American Language Studies

Author : David Thrift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican American Language Studies written by David Thrift and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States

Author : Glenn A. Martínez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315400979
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States written by Glenn A. Martínez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of the language education that Latinx students experience in historically-situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology and policy. Reframing language studies to take into account the roles of power, inequality, and social settings, this book provokes dialogue between areas of language education that rarely interface. Through privileging the learner experience, the book provides a window to the contested spaces across language education and generates new opportunities for engagement and action. Offering nuanced and insightful analyses, this book is ideal for scholars, language researchers, language teacher educators and graduate students in all areas of language education.

An American Language

Author : Rosina Lozano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520969588
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book An American Language written by Rosina Lozano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.

Reflexiones 1997

Author : Neil Foley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292725065
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Reflexiones 1997 written by Neil Foley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflexiones is an annual review of the work-in-progress of scholars affiliated with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Reflexiones 1997, the inaugural edition, highlights the work of scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, media studies, and sociology. David Montejano, Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, opens with a piece about the creative ways in which Mexican American and African American scholars, legislators, and citizens mounted a successful response to the Fifth Circuit Court's Hopwood decision, which banned race as a criterion in admissions to public universities in Texas. Yolanda Padilla, of the School of Social Work, considers the poor labor-market outcomes of Mexican immigrants. América Rodríguez, of the Department of Radio, Television, & Film, studies language and class in the racial construction of a "Hispanic audience" for commercial purposes. José Limon, of the Departments of Anthropology and English, contemplates Selena, sexuality, and Greater Mexico. Neil Foley, of the Department of History, writes on Mexican Americans and their "Faustian pact" with whiteness. And Eric Meeks, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, discusses political mobilization and Yaqui identity in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. Together, these works in progress provide a vivid cross-section of current research by faculty and students intellectually engaged in issues of concern to the Mexican American community and to Latinos throughout the United States.

Academic Language Development and Transfer for Mexican-American Students Studying College Level Spanish

Author : Isolina Sands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Academic Language Development and Transfer for Mexican-American Students Studying College Level Spanish written by Isolina Sands and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perspectives in Mexican American Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Mexican American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language as Cultural Practice

Author : Sandra R. Schecter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135660042
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Language as Cultural Practice written by Sandra R. Schecter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, such as ethnicity, gender, and class. It shows that language socialization--instantiated in language choices and patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts characterized by ambiguity and flux--is both a dynamic and a fluid process. The study emphasizes the links between familial patterns of language use and language socialization practices on the one hand, and children's development of bilingual and biliterate identities on the other. Using a framework emerging from their selection of two geographically distinct localities with differing demographic features, Schecter and Bayley compare patterns of meaning suggested by the use of Spanish and English in speech and literacy activities, as well as by the symbolic importance ascribed by families and societal institutions (such as schools) to the maintenance and use of the two languages. Language as Cultural Practice: *provides a detailed account of the diversity of language practices and patterns of use in language minority homes; *offers educators detailed information on the language ecology of Latino homes in two geographically diverse communities--San Antonio, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California; *shows the diversity within Mexican-American communities in the United States--families profiled range from rural families in south Texas to upper middle class professional families in northern California; *provides data to correct the prevalent misconception that maintenance of Spanish interferes with the acquisition of English; and *contributes to the study of language socialization by showing that the process extends throughout the lifetime and that it is an interactive rather than a one-way process. This book will particularly interest researchers and professionals in linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, and education, and will be useful as a text in graduate courses in these areas that address language socialization and learning.

Listen to the Silences

Author : Kay M. Losey
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Listen to the Silences written by Kay M. Losey and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of not only the silence, but the silencing of Mexican American Students in one California community college holds lessons for all educators-of all students at all levels. A profoundly important book. Courtney B. Cazden Charles William Eliot Professor of Education (Emerita), Harvard Graduate School of Education

Reflexiones 1997

Author : Neil Foley
Publisher : Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
ISBN 13 : 9780292725065
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Reflexiones 1997 written by Neil Foley and published by Center for Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflexiones is an annual review of the work-in-progress of scholars affiliated with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Reflexiones 1997, the inaugural edition, highlights the work of scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, media studies, and sociology. David Montejano, Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, opens with a piece about the creative ways in which Mexican American and African American scholars, legislators, and citizens mounted a successful response to the Fifth Circuit Court's Hopwood decision, which banned race as a criterion in admissions to public universities in Texas. Yolanda Padilla, of the School of Social Work, considers the poor labor-market outcomes of Mexican immigrants. América Rodríguez, of the Department of Radio, Television, & Film, studies language and class in the racial construction of a "Hispanic audience" for commercial purposes. José Limon, of the Departments of Anthropology and English, contemplates Selena, sexuality, and Greater Mexico. Neil Foley, of the Department of History, writes on Mexican Americans and their "Faustian pact" with whiteness. And Eric Meeks, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, discusses political mobilization and Yaqui identity in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. Together, these works in progress provide a vivid cross-section of current research by faculty and students intellectually engaged in issues of concern to the Mexican American community and to Latinos throughout the United States.

Mexican American Education Study

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican American Education Study written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mexican American English

Author : Erik R. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107098564
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mexican American English written by Erik R. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

Problems and Strategies in Teaching the Language Arts to Spanish-speaking Mexican American Children

Author : Carl L. Rosen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems and Strategies in Teaching the Language Arts to Spanish-speaking Mexican American Children written by Carl L. Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mexican-American Language Minority College Performance and Persistence

Author : Mary Lou Nava Hamaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican-American Language Minority College Performance and Persistence written by Mary Lou Nava Hamaker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community

Author : George Carpenter Barker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545561
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community written by George Carpenter Barker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1972-08-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community is an inquiry into how language functions in the life of a bilingual minority group in process of cultural change, this study investigated the acculturation and assimilation of individuals of Mexican descent living in Tucson, Arizona. Specifically, the language usage and interpersonal relations of individuals from representative families in the bilingual community of Tucson, the usage of bilingual social groups in the community, and the linguistic and cultural contacts between bilinguals and members of the larger Tucson community were examined. Data were drawn from observational studies of individuals and families; observation of group activities; and observation of, supplemented by questionnaires on, the cultural interests of Mexican children and their families. Some conclusions of the study were that Spanish came to be identified in the Mexican community as the language of intimate and family relations, while English came to be identified as the language of formal social relations and of all relations with Anglos. It was also found that the younger American-born group reject both Spanish and English in favor of their own language, Pachuco. Tables depicting the characteristics of 20 families, the language usage of families, and the language usage in personal relationships of English and Spanish are included. Suggestions for further research are made.

Understanding Mexican American Parents' Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Language Learning

Author : Claudia Alexa Corniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Mexican American Parents' Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Language Learning written by Claudia Alexa Corniel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino-Hispanic students currently begin their educational career learning less and underperforming their White counterparts. With this learning trajectory, Latino-Hispanic students are falling behind their peers, most notably within the core subject area of language arts. This achievement gap is a problematic issue that legislators, schools and educators continue to debate over how to effectively resolve. This study utilized a quantitative research approach to investigate attitudes and behaviors of Mexican American parents towards their children’s language learning. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of parents’ language use, children’s language use at home, parents’ education levels, and household income on the perceptions of Mexican American parents with respect to their child’s language learning, the kinds of support they provide at home around language learning, and their engagement with school-based parental involvement activities. SPSS 22.0 was used to analyze the survey data. Descriptive statistics and mean scores were used to calculate frequencies of parental engagement and perceived value of language learning respectively. Overall, the findings suggest that Mexican American parents value their children’s language learning. Moreover, that they are involved with their child’s language learning in varying degrees. Implications of this study point towards more parent-teacher collaboration and a more efficient way of parent volunteer utilization in the classroom.