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David W. Barillas Chon – Urban Education, 2024
This study examines how three recently arrived Indigenous male migrant youth from Guatemala and Mexico in an urban high school in the Pacific Northwest understood and employed Spanish and English to navigate racialized and languaged interactions. Utilizing a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, findings from this study show that Spanish is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Males, Migrants
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Hoenes del Pinal, Eric – Language Policy, 2016
One of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council was the adoption of vernacular languages in the liturgy. The transition from Latin to vernaculars was not unproblematic, however, as it raised several practical and theoretical questions regarding the relationship between local churches and…
Descriptors: Catholics, American Indian Languages, Churches, Bilingualism
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Ward, Thomas – Hispania, 2012
Much has been written about "indianismo" and "indigenismo" and their literary and social meaning, but rarely have these two "criollo" movements been positioned face to face with actual Indigenous expression. This article attempts a preliminary pass at just such an approach by comparing four indigenous themes…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Latin Americans, Writing (Composition), Foreign Policy
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Conaway, Roger N.; Wardrope, William J. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2004
The format and structure of 150 Spanish-language letters written by business administrators in Guatemalan firms were analyzed to help determine how Latin American business writers organize and present information in various types of routine letters. Findings suggest that Latin American businesspeople follow some, but not all, of the format…
Descriptors: Sentences, Business Communication, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans
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Guardado, Martin – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2006
This qualitative study aims to explore the loss and maintenance of Spanish in Latin American children in Vancouver from the perspective of parents. It focuses on the experiences of children either developing bilingually (Spanish-English) or monolingually (English). The participating families were from Colombia, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and had…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans