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Ciriza, Maria del Puy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This article compares Spanish proficiency assessments across three states (Texas, Arizona, and California) in relation to four overarching themes: (a) verification methods of proficiency; (b) test-task authenticity; (c) impact of pedagogical content knowledge in test performance; and (d) conceptions of language 'correctness' on the scoring…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Spanish
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Gingras, Rosario C. – 1971
Among the Mexican American Dialects activity's concerns is the linguistic phenomena characterizing what has been termed Local Hispanicized English (LHE) and whether or not LHE has become an institutionalized dialect of American English. In order to answer whether LHE has characteristics distinguishing it from other Hispanicized forms of English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Dialect Studies
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Ramirez, Arnulfo G.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1983
Mexican American high school students from Texas (50) and California (80) registered reactions to four varieties of Spanish: code switching, ungrammatical, dialectical, "standard" Mexican Spanish. The last rated higher than the other three varieties, the two "non-standard" varieties higher than code switching. Judgements were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language), Dialects, Family Influence