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Riegelhaupt, Florencia; Carrasco, Roberto Luis – Bilingual Research Journal, 2000
A Chicana bilingual teacher from Arizona lived with a middle-class Mexican family during a 5-week Mexican immersion program. Her complaints about "harsh reactions" toward her and her Spanish showed how her use of a few stigmatized characteristics of nonstandard Spanish were judged by standard Spanish speakers to indicate an uneducated…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs
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Stakhnevich, Julia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
This article reports on a diary study conducted to explore third language acquisition in the immersion setting in Mexico as experienced by a bilingual Russian/English learner of Spanish who had recently immigrated to the USA from Russia. Language learning is approached as a socialization process that involves negotiation of meaning (Vygotsky,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Metalinguistics, Diaries, Foreign Countries