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Garcia, Sara Soledad – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
This is an analysis of California history of the shifting of language policies from Spanish to English, as an Official Language The focus is English as an imposed language that from the beginning of schooling policies stifle a process of language acquisition for the majority of Spanish speakers. In 1849 the California Constitution stipulated that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Patterns, State History, State Policy